Event time:
Monday, February 26, 2018 - 4:00pm
Location:
THE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LIBRARY, Bingham Hall
300 College Street, 8th Floor
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Xavier Lee
(PhD Student at the Department of Comparative Literature)
Outline of a Theory of Black Anxiety
Xavier Lee offers a framework for reading anxiety as the result of the imposition of the ontological category of “Black” through racial violence. Offering an overview of the various theories of anxiety in the fields of psychoanalysis and phenomenology, he applies anxiety to the study of Black social ontology in literature in order to better understand the impact of racial trauma in the perception of the racialized self.
Monday, February 26 @ 4:00pm, Bingham Library
Contacts for 2018 Open Forum:
Ariel Pridan (ariel.pridan@yale.edu) and Jackie Rice (jkirkland.rice@yale.edu)