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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Terence and the "black figura": A Manuscript Talk by Professor Jesse McCarthy
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SUMMARY:Terence and the "black figura": A Manuscript Talk by Professor Jesse McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:<p><span>Terence’s play </span><em><span>Eunuchus</span></em><span> bears a special relationship to the representation of blackness in Roman New Comedy and a significant place in Erich Auerbach’s 1938 essay “Figura.” Drawing out the implications of this coincidence, Professor Jesse McCarthy offers an introduction to his next book project, </span><em><span>Dark Figures: The Representation of Blackness in Western Literature</span></em><span>, a study of the representation of blackness in selected works from antiquity to the 20th&nbsp;century. Taking inspiration from Auerbach’s </span><em><span>Mimesis</span></em><span>: </span><em><span>The Representation of Reality in Western Literature</span></em><span>,&nbsp;his book traces what Auerbach called a “</span><em><span>figura</span></em><span>,” and his book calls the “black </span><em><span>figura</span></em><span>,”&nbsp;as the effect of repeatedly reconstructed figural representations that&nbsp;transmit and refashion&nbsp;the Western encounter with racial blackness across succeeding periods of literary history.&nbsp;</span></p>
LOCATION:Thompson Room, Barker Center
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