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...certainly does hurt [the government department]," added Harvey C. Mansfield, Kenan professor of government. Despite "harbingers from sources at Yale [of her departure], they were hoping to have her stay," he said...
...Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 walks to work on a regular basis and thus has only the rare encounter with the Harvard Parking bureaucracy...
...things I have always taken issue with in Southern literature is that it is almost all rooted in social realism," says Kenan. "I grew up around people who took the Bible literally, and still do." So in college, when Kenan first read such South American authors as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, he abandoned his plans to be a physicist and turned to writing. "When I encountered writers who wrote about spirits like they would changing a carburetor, I realized you can come at this form from an entirely different vantage point...
...attempts to transform himself into a bird to escape the ostracism he will face if his homosexuality is exposed in his religious community. Instead he unleashes an army of demons that haunt him as he is haunted by what he sees as his sin. It is with Horace that Kenan claims the most affinity, and his plight seems a supernatural rendering of Kenan's experience of coming to terms with his own homosexuality in a culture where it was "never talked about but always a shadow...
...Kenan welcomes the passing of certain aspects of that rigid culture. "The monolith of the black church, for example, has some outdated ways of thinking that can hold a people back," he says. At the same time, he laments the demise of those elements that have proved so nurturing, particularly Chinquapin's understanding of family. "Because of slavery, the idea of nuclear family didn't exist among black Americans," says Kenan. "So people depended on a network of family, but now many of those networks are breaking down." Kenan found his nostalgia echoed across the country as he researched...