Race in American Literature and Culture
Title | Race in American Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | John Ernest |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 467 |
Release | 2022-06-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108487394 |
The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.
Race Sounds
Title | Race Sounds PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Brittingham Furlonge |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | 183 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1609385616 |
Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how black artists--including well-known figures such as writers Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston, and singers Bettye LaVette and Aretha Franklin, among others--imagine listening. Drawing from a multimedia archive, Furlonge examines how many of the texts call on readers to "listen in print." In the process, she gives us a new way to read and interpret these canonical, aurally inflected texts, and demonstrates how listening allows us to engage with the sonic lives of difference as readers, thinkers, and citizens.
Race & Resistance
Title | Race & Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0195146999 |
Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture and politics, and makes his case through the example of literature.
The Inhuman Race
Title | The Inhuman Race PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Cassuto |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231103367 |
In revealing the source of the ideology of whiteness in the imagination, Cassuto turns to images of blackness in American literature and culture from 1622 to 1865, examining such texts as Swallow Barn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Typee, and Moby Dick.
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Title | Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Ventura |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2019-10-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030194701 |
Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American culture and society. Utopia in everyday usage designates an idealized fantasy place, but within the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies, the term often describes the worldviews of non-dominant groups when they challenge the ruling order. In a time when white supremacy is reasserting itself in the US and around the world, there is a growing need to understand the vital relationship between race and utopia as a resource for resistance. Utopian literature opens up that relationship by envisioning and negotiating the prospect of a better future while acknowledging the brutal past. The collection fills a critical gap in both literary studies, which has largely ignored the issue of race and utopia, and utopian studies, which has said too little about race.
To Wake the Nations
Title | To Wake the Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Eric J. Sundquist |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 722 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780674893313 |
Sundquist presents a major reevaluation of the formative years of American literature, 1830-1930, that shows how white and black literature constitute a single interwoven tradition. By examining African America's contested relation to the intellectual and literary forms of white culture, he reconstructs American literary tradition.
Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930
Title | Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Birnbaum |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 207 |
Release | 2003-11-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521824257 |
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