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Rita Keresztesi
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Keresztesi's teaches courses on ethnic American modernism, the Harlem
Renaissance, Black Arts/Black Power, and theory and cultural studies. Her
interdisciplinary interests include Afro-Caribbean and West African culture
and politics in film and music. She was a Fulbright Scholar teaching in the
Department of Anglophone Studies at the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso,
West Africa, September 2010 through July 2011.
She is the author of Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between
the World Wars (Nebraska UP, 2005 and 2009). Her recent publications
include "Hurston in Haiti: Neocolonialism and Zombification" in Race,
Oppression and the Zombie, ed. Christopher Moreman (McFarland,
2011); "Ethnic Modernism" in Blackwell's
Companion to the Modern American
Novel, ed. John Matthews (Blackwell, 2009); "George Schuyler's Black No
More (1931)" in Teaching the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Michael Soto
(Peter Lang, 2008); and "Cowboys and West Indians: Decolonizing the Western in Perry
Henzell's The Harder They Come" in Ghost Riders: The (Cowboy)
Western and World Cinema (forthcoming).
More information about her book Strangers at Home can be found here.
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