Politics and Affect in Black Women's Fiction

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Exploring literary possibilities, Politics and Affect reads black women’s text—in particular Frances Harper’s “The Two Offers” (1859), Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste (1865), Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia (1998)—as richly creative documents saturated with sociopolitical value. Interested in how African American women writers from the nineteenth century to the present have mined the politics of affect and emotion to document love, shame, and suffering in environments shaped by race, Kathy Glass gives sustained attention to the impact of racist affect on the black body, and examines how black women writers deploy emotional states to engender sociopolitical change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-11
Mått:152 x 221 x 10 mm
Vikt:213 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Philosophy of Race
Antal sidor:134
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498538411

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Kathy Glass is associate professor of English at Duquesne University.

Recensioner i media

Collectively, Glass illuminates texts that challenge racism and make visible the social and political value of love. The connection of the texts through the sociopolitical power of love is clear and relevant. . . As Glass ends with Kimberlé Crenshaw’s demand to acknowledge the pain of racism in urgent attention to intersectionality, she turns to a list of twentieth-century authors that also acknowledge the pain of racism. Concluding with the conditions of racism and homophobia noted by Audre Lorde, Glass returns the reader to the longstanding commitment to representing social justice in texts. Clearly, this study can encompass even more narratives and her commitment to reading these closely should be commended. This book is perhaps the most extensive study of affect in black women’s literature specifically. . .

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Love-Driven Politics in Frances Harper’s “The Two Offers”Chapter Two: “Do Unto Others”: De-Racializing the Golden Rule in Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste; or The Slave BrideChapter Three: Nella Larsen’s Spiritual StrivingsChapter Four: On Blackness and Longing in Danzy Senna’s CaucasiaConclusionBibliography