Sumários

Civil Rights and Popular Culture

5 Abril 2017, 10:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

Bob Dylan and Nina Simone - analysis of their work in the context of the civil rights's movement;

Political Programs of the 60s: JFK's "The New Frontier" and Lyndon Johnson's " Great society";
Politics and Celebrity Culture; 
The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (continuation)

31 Março 2017, 10:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo


Surrealist imagery in Invisible Man;
Hegemonic narratives and other ways of "seeing";
The Reception of Invisible Men: three comment on the novel.

Analysis of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: continuation

29 Março 2017, 10:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo



Analysis of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Context and Historical Figures: from segregation to civil rights movement;

Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

24 Março 2017, 10:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

Analysis of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man:

Epigraphs and cultural context; 
Excepts from Chapter 1;
Introduction to the main themes of the novel.

Second World War and Post-War Culture

22 Março 2017, 10:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

Historical background and New Gender Politics;

The War Machine and Production:
Pearl Harbour and the Relocation and Internment of Japonese-Americans; 
Moral Ambiguities in the Post-War Period.