Lecture, 1/11 @ 4pm, "Contextualizing State-Sponsored Violence in Contemporary Haitian American & Dominican American Lit"
On Tuesday, January 11, Professor Jenna Sciuto, of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will be presenting a lecture on campus in PA 101 at 4 pm. The title of her lecture is "Contextualizing State-Sponsored Violence in Contemporary Haitian American and Dominican American Literature." It is also available live via Zoom.
This event is cosponsored by the History Department, the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Study of the Americas Initiative, and the Comparative Studies Program.
Earlier this year, Professor Sciuto published her first book, Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature with the University Press of Mississippi.
In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, author Jenna Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual policing of the color line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through William Faulkner’s work, Louisiana through Ernest Gaines’s novels, Haiti through the work of Marie Chauvet and Edwidge Danticat, and the Dominican Republic through writing by Julia Alvarez, Junot Díaz, and Nelly Rosario. This literature exposes the continuing coloniality that links depictions of US democracy with Caribbean dictatorships in the twentieth century, revealing a set of interrelated features characterizing the transformation of colonial forms of racial and sexual control into neocolonial reconfigurations.
For more information, contact english@fau.edu or call 561-297-3830.
