Postmodern Literature and Race (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Postmodernism Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Gray, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316191040
• Artikelnr.: 52989312

Inhaltsangabe

1. Critical histories: postcolonialism, postmodernism and race Bill
Ashcroft; 2. Race and the crisis of the postmodern social novel Madhu
Dubey; 3. Worlded localisms: cosmopolitics writ small David James; 4.
Yellows, blacks, blues: the seductions of (black) postmodern detective
fiction Bran Nicol; 5. Performing identity: intertextuality, race and
difference in the South Asian novel in English Peter Morey; 6. Performing
race in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark Abigail Ward; 7. Appropriate
appropriation?: Ishmael Reed's hoodoo and Flannery O'Connor's artificial
negroes John N. Duvall; 8. 'How Scottish I am': Alasdair Gray, race and
neo-nationalism Len Platt; 9. 'Justabit fascist': Dubravka Ugrei¿,
cosmopolitanism and the post-Yugoslav condition Vedrana Velickovic; 10.
Postmodern prose and the discourse of the 'cultural Jew': the cases of
Mailer and Foer David Witzling; 11. Race, comedy and tourism: the hideous
embarrassments of Will Self's The Butt David Punter; 12. White male
nostalgia in Don DeLillo's Underworld Tim Engles; 13. Postmodern revisions
of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes, Ballard Nick Bentley; 14. The whiteness of
David Foster Wallace Samuel Cohen; 15. After the first decade: revisiting
the work of Zadie Smith Philip Tew; 16. Racial neoliberalism and whiteness
in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Sue J. Kim; 17. 'Some kind of black': black
British historiographic metafictions and the postmodern politics of race
Sara Upstone.