Stephanie Li

Ugly White People

Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America

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Produktbeschreibung

"Ugly White People explores representations of whiteness from twenty-first-century white American authors as they grapple with whiteness as its own construct rather than a wrongly assumed norm. Revealing white recognition of the ugly forms whiteness can take, Stephanie Li examines the tension between acknowledging whiteness as an identity built on domination and the failure to remedy inequalities that have proliferated from this founding injustice"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781517915742
• ISBN-10: 1517915740
• Artikelnr.: 68316363

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Li is Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is author of Pan-African American Literature,Playing in the White, and Signifying without Specifying.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1. Disavowing Whiteness: Dave Eggers
2. Eliding White Privilege: J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and Sarah
Smarsh’s Heartland
3. White Desires: Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs
4. The End of History: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
5. Self(ish)-Care: Otessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation
6. The Dangers of White Male Speech: Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School
Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index