How does narrative reliability help in the production and critique of racial ideologies? Through a refreshing analysis of well-established novels by Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, Albert Camus and Alejo Carpentier, this book explores the racial politics of literary form.
How does narrative reliability help in the production and critique of racial ideologies? Through a refreshing analysis of well-established novels by Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, Albert Camus and Alejo Carpentier, this book explores the racial politics of literary form.
Marta Puxan-Oliva (PhD Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010, Humanities and Comparative Literature) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and an assistant professor at the Universitat de Barcelona. She has received several fellowships, especially a Marie- Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2013-2016) at Harvard University and the Universitat de Barcelona. A specialist on narrative theory, racial studies, and World Literature, she has published articles in English Studies, Journal of Narrative Theory, Journal of World Literature, Amerikastudien/American Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, Els Marges and L'Époque conradienne. She is a member of the research group Global Literary Studies (GlobaLS) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
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Acknowledgments Introduction. Experimenting with Reliability, Exploring Racial Conflicts Chapter 1. A Voice of Persuasion, the English Gentleman, and British Imperialism in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim Chapter 2. Reliability as a "Passing Zone": James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Chapter 3. Degrees of Reliability, Miscegenation, and the New South Creed in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Chapter 4. Estranging, Discordant Reliability, and French Colonial Algeria in Albert Camus' L'étranger Chapter 5. Narrative Perspective and the Lights and Shadows of the Haitian Revolution in Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo Conclusions Bibliography
Acknowledgments Introduction. Experimenting with Reliability, Exploring Racial Conflicts Chapter 1. A Voice of Persuasion, the English Gentleman, and British Imperialism in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim Chapter 2. Reliability as a "Passing Zone": James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Chapter 3. Degrees of Reliability, Miscegenation, and the New South Creed in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Chapter 4. Estranging, Discordant Reliability, and French Colonial Algeria in Albert Camus' L'étranger Chapter 5. Narrative Perspective and the Lights and Shadows of the Haitian Revolution in Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo Conclusions Bibliography
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