The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature

Herausgeber: Ernest, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering an accessible introduction to the history of race, this volume shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. It addresses the centrality of race in American literature by foregrounding the conflicts across different traditions and modes of interpretation.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781108812993
• ISBN-10: 1108812996
• Artikelnr.: 69640894

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction John Ernest; Part I. Foundations: 1. Tracing Race Travis
Foster; 2. Racial Management and Technologies of Care Malini Johar
Schueller; Part II. Backgrounds: 3. Still looking for the Meaning of
Whiteness in American Literature Valerie Babb; 4. From Plymouth Rock to
Standing Rock: Hospitality, Settler Colonialism, and 400 Years of
Indigenous Literary Resistance Drew Lopenzina; 5. Racing Latinidad Renee
Hudson; 6. African American Literature's One Long Memory Chris Freeburg; 7.
Race and the Mythos of Model Minority in Asian American Literature Swati
Rana; Part III. The Dynamics of Race and Literary Dynamics: 8. 'Dramatic
Race': Democratic Lessons of Twenty-First Century African American Drama
Frank Obenland; 9. Beyond Humanization: Decolonization, Relationality, and
Twenty-First Century Indigenous Literatures René Dietrich; 10. Shades of
Whiteness and the Enigma of Race: Racial In-Betweenness and American
Literature Mita Banerjee; 11. There is Here: Immigration Law and the
Literature of Belonging Jeannie Pfaelzer; Part IV. Rethinking American
Literature: 12. Race, Revision, and William Wells Brown's Miralda Brigitte
Fielder; 13. 'Here's to Chicanos in the Middle Class!': Culture, Class, and
The Limits of Chicano Literary Activism José Antonio Arellano; 14. Pulping
the Racial Imagination Kinohi Nishikawa; 15. Recognition, Urban NDN Style:
The Social Poetics of Pre-1980s Intertribal Newspapers Siobhan Senier; Part
V. Case Studies: 16. Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Question of Race Claire
Parfait; 17. The Legacy of Toni Morrison: Black Writers, Invisibility and
Intimacy Stephanie Li; Suggested Readings.