Race In American Literature And Culture
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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 |
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The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.
The Inhuman Race
Author | : Leonard Cassuto |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : African Americans in literature |
ISBN | : 9780231103374 |
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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 Sounds
Author | : Nicole Brittingham Furlonge |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781609385613 |
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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 |
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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.
Representing the Race
Author | : Gene Andrew Jarrett |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814743386 |
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Examines various forms of African-American literature, with the aim of delineating the political legacy of black Americans. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.
Race Resistance
Author | : Viet Thanh Nguyen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195146998 |
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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 |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521830898 |
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Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Mestizo Nations
Author | : Juan E. De Castro |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2002-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816521921 |
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Nationality in Latin America has long been entwined with questions of racial identity. Just as American-born colonial elites grounded their struggle for independence from Spain and Portugal in the history of Amerindian resistance, constructions of nationality were based on the notion of the fusion of populations heterogeneous in culture, race, and language. But this rhetorical celebration of difference was framed by a real-life pressure to assimilate into cultures always defined by Iberian American elites. In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizajeÑwhich proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elementsÑhe examines a selection of texts that represent the entire history and regional landscape of Latin American culture in its Western, indigenous, and neo-African traditions from Independence to the present. Through them, he delineates some of the ambiguities and contradictions that have beset this discourse. Among texts considered are the Indianist novel Iracema by the nineteenth-century Brazilian author JosŽ de Alencar; the Tradiciones peruanas, Peruvian Ricardo Palma's fictionalizations of national difference; and historical and sociological essays by the Peruvian Marxist JosŽ Carlos Mari‡tegui and the Brazilian intellectual Gilberto Freyre. And because questions raised by this discourse are equally relevant to postmodern concerns with national and transnational heterogeneity, De Castro also analyzes such recent examples as the Cuban dance band Los Van Van's use of Afrocentric lyrics; Richard Rodriguez's interpretations of North American reality; and points of contact and divergence between JosŽ Mar’a Arguedas's novel The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below and writings of Gloria Anzaldœa and Julia Kristeva. By updating the concept of mestizaje as a critical tool for analyzing literary text and cultural trendsÑincorporating not only race, culture, and nationality but also gender, language, and politicsÑDe Castro shows the implications of this Latin American discursive tradition for current critical debates in cultural and area studies. Mestizo Nations contains important insights for all Latin Americanists as a tool for understanding racial relations and cultural hybridization, creating not only an important commentary on Latin America but also a critique of American life in the age of multiculturalism.