"Lec 24 - Faulkner, Light in August (continued)" Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246) Professor Wai Chee Dimock focuses on the unresolved problem of race in Light in August, focusing her discussion on the variety of reflexive and calculated uses of the word "nigger" as a charged term toward Joe Christmas. She shows how the semantic burden of the word varies -- used under duress by Joe Brown and the dietician, deliberately made light of by Hightower and Bobbie, fused with the contrary meanings of Calvinist theology by Joanna Burden, and finally ironized by Joe Christmas himself. Dimock uses these multiple uses of the word "nigger" to meditate on the making of racial identities and our collective input into that process. Warning: This lecture contains graphic content and/or adult language that some viewers may find disturbing 00:00 - Chapter 1. The Unresolved Problem of Race in Light in August 07:01 - Chapter 2. Joe Brown's Involuntary Use of the Word "Nigger" 09:45 - Chapter 3. The Dietitian's Involuntary Use of the Word "Nigger" 14:01 - Chapter 4. The Dietician's Instrumental Usage of the Word "Nigger" 16:54 - Chapter 5. Hightower's Agonized Usage of the Word "Nigger" 19:37 - Chapter 6. The Doubleness of Hightower as Metaphor 21:31 - Chapter 7. Bobbie's Trivial Usage of the Word "Nigger" 23:57 - Chapter 8. Bobbie's Involuntary Use of the World "Nigger" 26:58 - Chapter 9. Joanna Burden's Emotional Response to the World "Nigger" as an Eternal Curse 34:47 - Chapter 10. The Burden's Calvinist Genealogy 39:38 - Chapter 11. Joanna Burden's Licentious Use of the Word "Negro" 47:03 - Chapter 12. Joe Christmas's Ironic Use of the Word "Nigger" Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2011.
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Lec 1 - Introduction - Hemingway Fitzgerald Faulkner
Lec 2 - Hemingway's In Our Time
Lec 3 - Hemingway's In Our Time, Part II
Lec 4 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Lec 5 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II
Lec 6 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Lec 7 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part II
Lec 8 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part III
Lec 9 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part IV
Lec 10 - Hemingway -- To Have and Have Not
Lec 11 - Hemingway -- To Have and Have Not
Lec 13 - Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying
Lec 14 - Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying, Part II
Lec 15 - Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying
Lec 16 - Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lec 17 - Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lec 18 - Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls (continued)
Lec 19 - Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls (continued)
Lec 20 - Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night
Lec 21 - Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (continued)
Lec 22 - Faulkner, Light in August