Overview
Syllabus
- Chapter 1. The Unresolved Problem of Race in Light in August
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- Chapter 2. Joe Brown's Involuntary Use of the Word "Nigger"
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- Chapter 3. The Dietitian's Involuntary Use of the Word "Nigger"
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- Chapter 4. The Dietician's Instrumental Usage of the Word "Nigger"
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- Chapter 5. Hightower's Agonized Usage of the Word "Nigger"
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- Chapter 6. The Doubleness of Hightower as Metaphor
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- Chapter 7. Bobbie's Trivial Usage of the Word "Nigger"
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- Chapter 8. Bobbie's Involuntary Use of the World "Nigger"
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- Chapter 9. Joanna Burden's Emotional Response to the World "Nigger" as an Eternal Curse
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- Chapter 10. The Burden's Calvinist Genealogy
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- Chapter 11. Joanna Burden's Licentious Use of the Word "Negro"
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- Chapter 12. Joe Christmas's Ironic Use of the Word "Nigger"
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