题   目： The Myth of the Lost Cause After the American Civil War

讲座人： Martin Ramey

 ( 云南师范大学客座教授 )

时   间： 3 月 29 日（周三）下午 4 ： 00—5:30

地   点：外语楼 101 会议室

 

讲座内容：Literature, both journalistic and belles lettristic, following the American Civil War created a mythos that lasted until the 1960s. This mythos was that the Southern Cause was State’s Rights rather than the abolition of the institution of race slavery. The reformulated US after the War led to a tragic coalition between the North and the South that resulted in practices of discrimination against African Americans. This lecture will provide examples from literature that demonstrate how this mythos was perpetrated and why its exposure was essential to American political progress.

 

个人简介：Martin Ramey is an interdisciplinary scholar who works in the fields of literature, history, cognitive science, and philosophy. He is Guest Professor at Yunnan Normal University and Henan Polytechnic University. His special interest is in generating dialogue and inquiry on topics found in the intersections of these disciplines. He is a native of Chicago who holds a PhD from Chicago Theological Seminary. His essays and reviews have appeared in Humanitas, Contemporary Theatre Review, Style, Imperium Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Review of Religious Research, and Review of Biblical Literature. He has spoken widely at conferences and universities in the USA and internationally.