Carlyle Thompson

The Tragic Black Buck

Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination, Second Edition
Herausgegeben:Thompson, Carlyle V.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a challenge to the racial hegemony of biological white supremacy. Fitzgerald convincinglyand boldly shows how racial passing by light-skinned Black individuals becomes the most fascinating literary trope associated with democracy and the enduring desire for the American Dream.

Produktdetails

• African-American Literature and Culture 1
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 317680
• 3., überarb. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781433176807
• ISBN-10: 1433176807
• Artikelnr.: 58748307

Autorenporträt

Carlyle Van Thompson is Professor of African American Literature and American Literature at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. Thompson is the former Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Education at Medgar Evers College and former Series Editor at Peter Lang Publishers Inc. As the author of three scholarly books, sixteen edited books, and numerous scholarly articles on Richard Wright, Nella Larsen, Ernest J. Gaines, Abner Louima, Toni Morrison, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thompson¿s current scholarship focuses on the challenges of young Black males in academia. Thompson lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments - Preface to the First Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction: Black Bucks Being as White as They Wanna Be: The Historical and Theoretical Roots of Black People Passing for White - "The Circular Ruins" of Passing: Race, Class, and Gender in Charles Waddell Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars -
The Improvisational and Faustian Performance in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man - The Tragic Black Buck: Jay Gatsby's Passing in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - Joe Christmas, a Black Buck with Attitude: The Virulent Nexus of Race and Color in William Faulkner's Light in August - Conclusion - Bibliography

Rezensionen

"Carlyle Van Thompson's study of black maleness as forms of mask and masquerade is brilliantly driving and fresh in its exploration of novels we thought we knew well. Boldest of all is Professor Thompson's discernment of the 'black buck' standing behind the flashy white exteriors of Jay Gatsby; but every chapter here has its audacious new findings. The Tragic Black Buck will change the way we read canonical American literature as well as the current American scene, where masking and double-masking seem to define so much in our national identities. This book is a triumph."-Robert G. O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University