The Satyr, the Goddess, and the Oriental Cast: Subversive Classicism in The Conjure Woman

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Amherst College (College street, Amherst, MA 01002, Amherst MA)

Classics lecture scheduleThe Department of Classics encourages students to join Dr. Masiki for "The Satyr, the Goddess, and the Oriental Cast: Subversive Classicism in The Conjure Woman." The workshop explores Black classicism through Charles W. Chesnutt's 1899 book of short stories, and offers a unique and corrective intervention in the interpretive history of those stories.