SWAG 3400
American Ghost: Gender and Race in Literature and Photography
Course Description
This course considers the figure of the ghost in twentieth-century and contemporary American women¿s literature and visual art by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Francesca Woodman, Carol Maso, Louise Erdrich, and others. Through woman writers¿ and artists¿ figurations of ghosts, we will explore unresolved sites of mourning structured into ideologies of race, ethnicity, and gender in the U.S.