Robert Young

Signs of Race in Poststructuralism

Toward a Transformative Theory of Race

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race. The author positions this fundamental question at the heart of his project: why does race still work if it is commonly misunderstood to be a social construct?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: International Scholars Publications
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780761845065
• ISBN-10: 0761845062
• Artikelnr.: 26056470

Autorenporträt

Robert Young is associate professor of English at University of Alabama. He specializes in African-American literary and cultural theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Acknowledgments Part 2 Introduction Part 3 Chapter 1: Race as
Commodity Fetish Part 4 Chapter 2: Putting Materialism back into Race
Theory: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race Part 5 Chapter 3: The
Linguistic Turn, Materialism, and Race: The Postmodern Crisis in
African-American Literary Theory and Richard Wright's Critique of Ideology
Part 6 Chapter 4: The Politics of Race and Psychoanalysis: Richard Wright's
Critique of Bourgeois Subjectivity in Savage Holiday Part 7 Chapter 5: Oral
Textualities, Oral (Blues) Poetics, and Oral Erotics: Disabling the
Exchange Economy in Gayl Jones' Corregidora Part 8 Bibliography