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Race: The History of an Idea in America
Häftad, 1997
973 kr
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When Tom Gossett's Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared more than a generation ago, it explored the impact of race theory on literature in a way that anticipated the entire current scholarly discourse on the subject. Though it has gone out of print, it has never been rendered obsolete. …
Bordering on the Body
The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture
Av Doyle
Häftad, 1995
1666 kr
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Throughout literary history, the figure of the mother has been the subject of much critical attention. While traditional studies have focused on women writers and the maternal, Laura Anne Doyle pairs literary movements not often considered together--Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance--to show how …
Who Set You Flowin?
The African-American Migration Narrative
Inbunden, 1995
1704 kr
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Who Set You Flowin is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music and painting. This book, identifies the "migration narrative" as a dominant African American cultural tradition. Covering a period from 1923 to 1992, Griffin provides close …
'Who Set You Flowin'?'
The African-American Migration Narrative
Häftad, 1997
1092 kr
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Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centres in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in …
Mercy, Mercy Me
African American Culture and the American Sixties
Inbunden, 2001
2705 kr
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Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the Sixties can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. James C. Hall finds that the legacy of slavery and the resistance to it have by necessity made African Americans among …
Psychoanalysis and Black Novels
Desire and the Protocols of Race
Av Tate
Häftad, 1999
898 kr
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Although psychoanalytic theory is one of the most important and influential tools in contemporary literary criticism, to date it has had very little impact on the study of African-American literature and culture. Now, Claudia Tate argues that psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich readings of …
Race: The History of an Idea in America
Inbunden, 1998
3917 kr
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When Tom Gosset's Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared more than a generation ago, it explored the impact of race theory on literature in a way that anticipated the entire current scholarly discourse on the subject. Though it has gone out of print, it has never been rendered obsolete. …
Rape, Race, and Lynching
The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912
Av Sandra Gunning, Sandra Gunning
Inbunden, 1997
1316 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature …
Conjugal Union
The Body, the House, and the Black American
Inbunden, 1999
1493 kr
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In his new book, Robert Reid-Pharr argues that black gender and sexuality have always played a crucial role in questions of black national identity. He identifies the origins of a "national" African American literature in the founding of the Black press in 1827 and the beginnings of a novelistic …
Racechanges
White Skin, Black Face in American Culture
Av Susan Gubar
Inbunden, 1997
691 kr
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This book examines racial impersonations - i.e., blackface - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others. She …
Black Hunger
Food and the Politics of US Identity
Av Doris Witt
Inbunden, 1999
1005 kr
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The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 vaudeville performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African American women and food. In Black Hunger, Doris Witt demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic of …
Race and the Writing of History
Riddling the Sphinx
Av Maghan Keita
Inbunden, 2000
2647 kr
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This study examines the role of race in the construction of history and the validation of knowledge. Using Martin Bernal's Black Athena and its critiques as an entrée into the historical inquiries of African American intellectuals and many of their African counterparts, Keita engages the contested …
Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora
Black Women Writing and Performing
Inbunden, 2014
2283 kr
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Tropes ranging from Houston Baker's "bluesman," to Henry Louis Gates' "signifyin'" to Geneva Smitherman's "talkin' and testifyin'" to bell hooks' "talking back" to Cheryl Wall's "worrying the line" all affirm the power of sonance and sound in the African American literary tradition. The collection …
The New Red Negro
The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946
Inbunden, 1999
2336 kr
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and …
The Dialect of Modernism
Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature
Av North
Häftad, 1998
952 kr
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The second volume in Oxford's new Race and American Culture series, The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as …
Neo-slave Narratives
Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form
Inbunden, 1999
2336 kr
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Neo-slave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form -- the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, the …
The Melancholy of Race
Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and Hidden Grief
Inbunden, 2000
2123 kr
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In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne A. Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. She proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholy act - a social category that is …
Racechanges
White Skin, Black Face in American Culture
Av Susan Gubar
Häftad, 2000
1332 kr
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This book examines racial impersonations - i.e., blackface - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others. She …
Race and Resistance
Literature and Politics in Asian America
Häftad, 2002
898 kr
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Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American …
The Melancholy of Race
Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
Häftad, 2002
1080 kr
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In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social …
Love & Theft
Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Häftad, 2013
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579 kr
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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully …
