Signs of Race – serie
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17 produkter
Richard Wright
New Readings in the 21st Century
Av A. Craven
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently …
Indography
Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England
Av J. Harris
Inbunden, 2012
1261 kr
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In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to consider the proximities and distances between various early …
Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance
Av P. Outka
Inbunden, 2008
1262 kr
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Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction …
Weyward Macbeth
Intersections of Race and Performance
Av S. Newstok
Inbunden, 2010
635 kr
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Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly …
Weyward Macbeth
Intersections of Race and Performance
Av S. Newstok
Häftad, 2010
698 kr
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Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly …
Writing Race Across the Atlantic World
Medieval to Modern
Av P. Beidler, G. Taylor
Inbunden, 2005
635 kr
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This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down institutional boundaries between 'American' and 'British' literature in this early period, as well as …
Writing Race Across the Atlantic World
Medieval to Modern
Av P. Beidler, G. Taylor
Häftad, 2005
635 kr
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This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down institutional boundaries between 'American' and 'British' literature in this early period, as well as …
English and Ethnicity
Av Glyn Ed. Davies, Glyn Ed Davies m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
552 kr
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This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world. The essays demonstrate that the constructs of both English and ethnicity are contested sites of identity formation.
Women and Others
Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire
Av C. Daileader, R. Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
389 kr
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Discussing intersecting discourses of race, gender and empire in literature, history and contemporary culture, the book begins with the metaphor of 'the other woman' as a repository for the 'otherness' of all women in a masculinist-racist society and shows how discourses of race and sexuality …
Funk Era and Beyond
New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture
Av T. Bolden
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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The Funk Era and Beyond is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America. Contributors employ a multitude of methodologies to examine this unique musical genre's relationship to African American culture and to music, literature, and visual art as a whole.
Funk Era and Beyond
New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture
Av T. Bolden
Häftad, 2008
635 kr
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The Funk Era and Beyond is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America. Contributors employ a multitude of methodologies to examine this unique musical genre's relationship to African American culture and to music, literature, and visual art as a whole.
Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance
Av P. Outka
Häftad, 2013
1388 kr
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Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction …
“White Other” in American Intermarriage Stories, 1945–2008
Av L. Cardon
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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Fictional depictions of intermarriage can illuminate perceptions of both 'ethnicity' and 'whiteness' at any given historical moment. Popular examples such as Lucy and Ricky in I Love Lucy (1951-1957), Joanna and John in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Toula and Ian in My Big Fat Greek Wedding …
Richard Wright
New Readings in the 21st Century
Av A. Craven
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently …
English and Ethnicity
Av J. Brutt-Griffler, C. Evans Davies
Häftad, 2007
552 kr
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This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world. The essays demonstrate that the constructs of both English and ethnicity are contested sites of identity formation.
“White Other” in American Intermarriage Stories, 1945–2008
Av L. Cardon
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
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Fictional depictions of intermarriage can illuminate perceptions of both 'ethnicity' and 'whiteness' at any given historical moment. Popular examples such as Lucy and Ricky in I Love Lucy (1951-1957), Joanna and John in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Toula and Ian in My Big Fat Greek Wedding …
Buying Whiteness
Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-hop
Av G. Taylor
Inbunden, 2005
1512 kr
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When and why did 'white people' start calling themselves 'white'? When and why did 'white slavery' become a paradox, and then a euphemism for prostitution? To answer such questions, Taylor begins with the auction of a 'white' slave in the first African American novel, William Wells Brown's Clotel …
