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SUMMARY:Morgan Centre seminar: 'Blackface Desdemona: Theorizing Interraci
 al Kinship Anxieties from William Shakespeare to Toni Morrison' 
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison)\n
 \nDepictions of white women in interracial sexual kinship illustrate the
  rhetoric by which antebellum discourses of race theorize blackness as t
 ransferrable from Black men (who “have” race) to white women (who “recei
 ve” race.) While Othello and Desdemona become iconic figures of interrac
 ial sexual relations in the American nineteenth-century\, more complex r
 hetorics of racial marking and desire are at play in blackface minstrel 
 productions of Othello\, in which even Desdemona is represented in black
 face. These plays demonstrate how Desdemona’s “begrimed” appearance lite
 ralized cultural and political anxieties about the “transfer” of racial 
 marking from Black men to white women through interracial sex. Toni Morr
 ison’s Desdemona (2011) re-centers the play’s race relations as a dialec
 tic between the white woman and her childhood nurse. Recognizing Black w
 omen beyond the caricatures of racist minstrelsy further shifts white wo
 men’s potential and failures of interracial kinship beyond normative gen
 ealogies.\n\nBrigitte Fielder is an Associate Professor at the Universit
 y of Wisconsin-Madison. \n\nAll welcome\, register via Eventbrite to rec
 eive details of how to join the seminar.\n\nPhoto by Molly Blackbird on 
 Unsplash.
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LOCATION:Online - register to receive details of how to join the seminar.
  
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