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5/31/05 (Tues) 
 LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN ANTEBELLUM AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
 4:00PM
 In: 1301 Rolfe Hall

LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN ANTEBELLUM AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE

  
  a lecture by Frances Smith Foster

  
  4:00pm - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 1301 Rolfe Hall

  Frances Smith Foster is the Charles Howard Candler 
  Professor of English and Women's Studies at Emory 
  University. Her first book, Witnessing Slavery: The 
  Development of the Ante-Bellum Slave Narrative (1979), was a
  ground-breaking study of that genre. Among her other major 
  publications are A Brighter, Coming Day: A Frances Ellen 
  Watkins Harper Reader (1990), Written by Herself: Literary 
  Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 (1993), and 
  Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: 
  Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 
  (1994). In addition to coediting the Norton Critical 
  Edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet 
  Jacobs, Professor Foster is the coeditor of The Oxford
  Companion to African American Literature, Behind the 
  Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White 
  House by Elizabeth Keckley, and The Norton Anthology of 
  African American Literature.

  
  Sponsored by the Department of English, the Bunche Center 
  for African American Studies, the Center for the Study of 
  Women, the Department of History, the American Research 
  Colloquium 
  
 -- submitted by Richard Yarborough (yarborou at humnet.ucla.edu)
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 For more information, contact yarborou at humnet.ucla.edu
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 This event is taken from the English Calendar.
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