Author: John Ernest
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.
Race in American Literature and Culture
Author: John Ernest
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.
Race Sounds
Author: Nicole Brittingham Furlonge
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609385616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how black artists--including well-known figures such as writers Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston, and singers Bettye LaVette and Aretha Franklin, among others--imagine listening. Drawing from a multimedia archive, Furlonge examines how many of the texts call on readers to "listen in print." In the process, she gives us a new way to read and interpret these canonical, aurally inflected texts, and demonstrates how listening allows us to engage with the sonic lives of difference as readers, thinkers, and citizens.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609385616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how black artists--including well-known figures such as writers Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston, and singers Bettye LaVette and Aretha Franklin, among others--imagine listening. Drawing from a multimedia archive, Furlonge examines how many of the texts call on readers to "listen in print." In the process, she gives us a new way to read and interpret these canonical, aurally inflected texts, and demonstrates how listening allows us to engage with the sonic lives of difference as readers, thinkers, and citizens.
Race & Resistance
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195146999
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture and politics, and makes his case through the example of literature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195146999
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture and politics, and makes his case through the example of literature.
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
Author: Jennie A. Kassanoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521830893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521830893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Black and White Strangers
Author: Kenneth W. Warren
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226873855
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
From Abraham Lincoln's wry observation that Harriet Beecher Stowe was "the little lady who made this big war" to Mark Twain's "wild proposition" that Walter Scott had somehow touched off sectional hostilities, there have been many competing theories about the impact of literature on nineteenth-century American society. In this provocative book, Kenneth W. Warren argues that the rise of literary realism late in the century was shaped by and in turn helped to shape the politics of racial difference following Reconstruction. Taking up a variety of novelists from this period, including most prominently Henry James and William Dean Howells, Warren demonstrates that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in forging a Jim Crow nation. As a literary history, Black and White Strangers places the writing of realistic novels within the context of their serialization in the monthly magazines of the 1880s. By viewing these novels in light of editorial policies regarding social propriety, national unity, and literary aesthetics, Warren reveals the often surprising ways in which realistic fiction at once challenged and abetted the growing conservatism of racial politics. Warren also seeks to bridge the gap between American and African-American literary studies, which have hitherto been "strangers" to each other. James and Howells, he argues, can be understood fully only when read alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Frances E.W. Harper; James's The American Scene, for instance must be seen as a companion text to Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. In making these connections, Warren challenges American and African-American studies to see themselves as mutually constitutive enterprises and to question the value of canon-based criticism in any complete investigation of the meaning of "race" in American cultural history.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226873855
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
From Abraham Lincoln's wry observation that Harriet Beecher Stowe was "the little lady who made this big war" to Mark Twain's "wild proposition" that Walter Scott had somehow touched off sectional hostilities, there have been many competing theories about the impact of literature on nineteenth-century American society. In this provocative book, Kenneth W. Warren argues that the rise of literary realism late in the century was shaped by and in turn helped to shape the politics of racial difference following Reconstruction. Taking up a variety of novelists from this period, including most prominently Henry James and William Dean Howells, Warren demonstrates that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in forging a Jim Crow nation. As a literary history, Black and White Strangers places the writing of realistic novels within the context of their serialization in the monthly magazines of the 1880s. By viewing these novels in light of editorial policies regarding social propriety, national unity, and literary aesthetics, Warren reveals the often surprising ways in which realistic fiction at once challenged and abetted the growing conservatism of racial politics. Warren also seeks to bridge the gap between American and African-American literary studies, which have hitherto been "strangers" to each other. James and Howells, he argues, can be understood fully only when read alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Frances E.W. Harper; James's The American Scene, for instance must be seen as a companion text to Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. In making these connections, Warren challenges American and African-American studies to see themselves as mutually constitutive enterprises and to question the value of canon-based criticism in any complete investigation of the meaning of "race" in American cultural history.
Representing the Race
Author: Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814743382
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Examines various forms of African-American literature, with the aim of delineating the political legacy of black Americans. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814743382
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Examines various forms of African-American literature, with the aim of delineating the political legacy of black Americans. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.
The Inhuman Race
Author: Leonard Cassuto
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231103367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In revealing the source of the ideology of whiteness in the imagination, Cassuto turns to images of blackness in American literature and culture from 1622 to 1865, examining such texts as Swallow Barn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Typee, and Moby Dick.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231103367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In revealing the source of the ideology of whiteness in the imagination, Cassuto turns to images of blackness in American literature and culture from 1622 to 1865, examining such texts as Swallow Barn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Typee, and Moby Dick.
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Author: Patricia Ventura
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030194701
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American culture and society. Utopia in everyday usage designates an idealized fantasy place, but within the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies, the term often describes the worldviews of non-dominant groups when they challenge the ruling order. In a time when white supremacy is reasserting itself in the US and around the world, there is a growing need to understand the vital relationship between race and utopia as a resource for resistance. Utopian literature opens up that relationship by envisioning and negotiating the prospect of a better future while acknowledging the brutal past. The collection fills a critical gap in both literary studies, which has largely ignored the issue of race and utopia, and utopian studies, which has said too little about race.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030194701
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American culture and society. Utopia in everyday usage designates an idealized fantasy place, but within the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies, the term often describes the worldviews of non-dominant groups when they challenge the ruling order. In a time when white supremacy is reasserting itself in the US and around the world, there is a growing need to understand the vital relationship between race and utopia as a resource for resistance. Utopian literature opens up that relationship by envisioning and negotiating the prospect of a better future while acknowledging the brutal past. The collection fills a critical gap in both literary studies, which has largely ignored the issue of race and utopia, and utopian studies, which has said too little about race.
To Wake the Nations
Author: Eric J. Sundquist
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674893313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Sundquist presents a major reevaluation of the formative years of American literature, 1830-1930, that shows how white and black literature constitute a single interwoven tradition. By examining African America's contested relation to the intellectual and literary forms of white culture, he reconstructs American literary tradition.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674893313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Sundquist presents a major reevaluation of the formative years of American literature, 1830-1930, that shows how white and black literature constitute a single interwoven tradition. By examining African America's contested relation to the intellectual and literary forms of white culture, he reconstructs American literary tradition.
Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930
Author: Michele Birnbaum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521824257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521824257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Table of contents