Race in American Literature and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ernest, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the unsteady foundations of American literary history, Race in American Literature and Culture examines the hardening of racial fault lines throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth while considering aspects of the literary and interrelated traditions that emerged from this fractured cultural landscape. A multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in the American imagination, the book pushes debate in exciting new directions. Offering expert explorations of how the history of race has been represented and written about, it shows in what ways those representations and writings have influenced wider American culture. Distinguished scholars from African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies foreground the conflicts in question across different traditions and different modes of interpretation, and are thus able comprehensively and creatively to address in the volume how and why race has been so central to American literature as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108803014
• Artikelnr.: 66180977

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Fractured Foundations: 1. American empire Edward Larkin; 2.
Synchronic and diachronic: Race in early American literatures Katy Chiles;
3. Protean oceans: Racial uncertainty in Arthur Gordon Pym and Emmanuel
Appadocca Gesa Mackenthun; Part II. Racial Citizenship: 4. 'Faithful
Reflection' and the work of African American literary history Derrick
Spires; 5. Beyond protest Koritha Mitchell; 6. Affiliated races Edlie L.
Wong; Part III. Contending Forces: 7. Reconstructing race Sarah Gardner; 8.
Out of the silent South: White Southerners writing race during the long
reconstruction John Grammer; 9. Neighborliness, race, and
nineteenth-century regional fiction Stephanie Foote; Part IV.
Reconfigurations: 10. Passing M. Giulia Fabi; 11. Beyond assimilation John
Alba Cutler; 12. Native reconfigurations Kiara M. Vigil; 13. Dispossessions
and repositionings: Sarah Winnemucca's school as anti-colonialist lesson
Cari Carpenter; 14. 'White by Law,' White by literature: Naturalization and
the constructedness of race in the literature of American naturalism Mita
Banerjee; Part V. Envisioning Race: 15. Picturing race: African Americans
in US visual culture before the Civil War Martha J. Cutter; 16. 'The Man
That Was a Thing': Uncle Tom's Cabin, photographic vision, and the
portrayal of race in the nineteenth century Maurice Wallace; 17. Locating
race Melanie B. Taylor; 18. De-forming and re-making: Bernardine Evaristo's
Girl, Woman, Other and the multifocal decolonial novel Paula M. L. Moya and
Luz M. Jiménez Ruvalcaba; Part VI. Case Studies: 19. Collective biographies
and African American history: Men of Mark (1887) and Progress of a Race
(1897) Claire Parfait; 20. Aztlan for the middle class: Chicano literary
activism José Antonio Arellano; 21. The racial underground Kinohi
Nishikawa; 22. Literature in Hawaiian pidgin and the critique of Asian
settler colonialism Jeehyun Lim; 23. Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere
and the burning house of American literature Anna Brickhouse; Part VII.
Reflections and Prospects: 24. What is missing? Black history, Black loss
and Black resurrectionary poetics P. Gabrielle Foreman; 24. Traditions,
communities, literature Siobhan Senier; 26. Children of the future Min
Hyoung Song; 27 Presidential race Stephanie Li.