Ghosts And The Undead Racial Hauntings In American literature"
ENGL-321-0W1
SUNY Canton
- Semester
- Fall 2025
- Instructor
- Alainya Kavaloski
- Start Date
- 08-21-2025
- Total Credits
- 3
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- 315-386-7616
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This course focuses on ghosts and the undead in contemporary American literary texts. We investigate child ghosts, haunted houses, vampires, and zombies and their connections to erased and obscured U.S. histories. By probing the unspeakable representations of violence and racism that hide in the shadows of contemporary American culture, we begin to bring the origins of these apparitions to light. The events that are central to the hauntings in this course include slavery, the colonization of native peoples and lands, the Jim Crow south, and the memories of atrocities that travel with immigrants to North America. This course asks, why do so many American texts invoke the undead? Why are some places and landscapes more haunted than others? Is there a way to escape the ghostly hauntings of the past? Students study major American writers including, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Jesmyn Ward, Louise Erdrich, Christina Garcia, Edwidge Danticat, and filmmaker Jordan Peele among others.
General Education Area(s): Humanities
Course Area: English & Literature
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 08-21-2025 - 12-12-2025
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