Spring 2017- Downtown
Great Sexpectations: How Extra-Legal Factors Impact Date Rape PerceptionsPresented by Kellie Lynch, Ph.D. Department of Criminal Justice February 7, 2017 Downtown Campus |
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Spring 2017 - Main Campus
Beyonce's Lemonade: at the Crossroads of Blues and ConjurePresented by Kinitra Brooks, Ph.D. Department of English February 9, 2017 |
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Searching for Sycorax
Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across the African diaspora, from Haiti, Trinidad, and Jamaica, to England and the United States, looking at new and canonized horror texts by Nalo Hopkinson, NK Jemisin, Gloria Naylor, and Chesya Burke. These Black women fiction writers take advantage of horror's ability to highlight U.S. white dominant cultural anxieties by using Africana folklore to revise horror's semiotics within their own imaginary. Ultimately, Brooks compares the legacy of Shakespeare's Sycorax (of The Tempest) to Black women writers themselves, who, deprived of mainstream access to self-articulation, nevertheless influence the trajectory of horror criticism by forcing the genre to de-centralize whiteness and maleness.
Publication Date: 2017
Sycorax's Daughters
A powerful, revealing horror anthology of dark fiction and poetry by Black women writers. The tales of what scares, threatens and shocks them will enlighten and entertain you.Sycorax¿s Daughters¿ stories and poems delve into demons and shape shifters from Carole McDonnell¿s ¿How to Speak to the Bogeyman¿ and Sheree Renée Thomas¿ ¿Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight¿ to far future offerings from Kiini Ibura Salaam¿s ¿The Malady of Need¿, Valjeanne Jeffers¿ steampunk female detective in ¿Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective II¿ and others.These thought-provoking twenty-eight stories and fourteen poems cover creatures imagined¿vampires, ghosts, and mermaids, as well as the unexpected price paid by women struggling for freedom and validation in the past¿slavery to science-fiction futures with transhumans and alternate realities.Leave the lights on and join these amazing authors as they share their unique vision of fear.
Publication Date: 2017
