Race In American Literature And Culture
Download Race In American Literature And Culture full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Race In American Literature And Culture ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Race in American Literature and Culture
Author | : John Ernest |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2022-06-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108487399 |
Download Race in American Literature and Culture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781609385613 |
Download Race Sounds Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Author | : Patricia Ventura,Edward K. Chan |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2019-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783030194703 |
Download Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
Author | : Jennie A. Kassanoff |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521830898 |
Download Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Race Resistance
Author | : Viet Thanh Nguyen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195146998 |
Download Race Resistance Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Representing the Race
Author | : Gene Andrew Jarrett |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814743386 |
Download Representing the Race Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : African Americans in literature |
ISBN | : 9780231103374 |
Download The Inhuman Race Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
African American Literature Beyond Race
Author | : Gene Andrew Jarrett |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2006-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780814743423 |
Download African American Literature Beyond Race Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. As a result, writings that are not preoccupied with race have long been invisible—unpublished, out of print, absent from libraries, rarely discussed among scholars, and omitted from anthologies. However, some of our most celebrated African American authors—from Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright to James Baldwin and Toni Morrison—have resisted this canonical rule, even at the cost of critical dismissal and commercial failure. African American Literature Beyond Race revives this remarkable literary corpus, presenting sixteen short stories, novelettes, and excerpts of novels-from the postbellum nineteenth century to the late twentieth century-that demonstrate this act of literary defiance. Each selection is paired with an original introduction by one of today's leading scholars of African American literature, including Hazel V. Carby, Gerald Early, Mae G. Henderson, George Hutchinson, Carla Peterson, Amritjit Singh, and Werner Sollors. By casting African Americans in minor roles and marking the protagonists as racially white, neutral, or ambiguous, these works of fiction explore the thematic complexities of human identity, relations, and culture. At the same time, they force us to confront the basic question, “What is African American literature?” Stories by: James Baldwin, Octavia E. Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Chester B. Himes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Frank J. Webb, Richard Wright, and Frank Yerby. Critical Introductions by: Hazel V. Carby, John Charles, Gerald Early, Hazel Arnett Ervin, Matthew Guterl, Mae G. Henderson, George B. Hutchinson, Gene Jarrett, Carla L. Peterson, Amritjit Singh, Werner Sollors, and Jeffrey Allen Tucker.