Race and the Literary Encounter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race and the Literary Encounter write by Lesley Larkin. This book was released on 2015-12-14. Race and the Literary Encounter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them. The texts interrupt, manage, and manipulate, employing thematic, formal, and performative strategies in order to multiply meanings for multiple readers, teach new ways of reading, and enable the emergence of antiracist reading subjects. Analyzing works by James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Percival Everett, Sapphire, and Toni Morrison, Lesley Larkin covers a century of African American literature in search of the concepts and strategies that black writers have developed in order to address and theorize a diverse audience, and outlines the special contributions modern and contemporary African American literature makes to the fields of reader ethics and antiracist literary pedagogy.
Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter
Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter write by P. Kitson. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a fresh investigation of primary sources and original readings, Kitson traces the origins of contemporary ideas about race though a variety of late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history.
Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race
Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race write by Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus. This book was released on 2020-04-15. Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the SAMLA Studies Award Honorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of U.S. race relations, the African American novel provided a powerful counternarrative to dominant and pejorative ideas about blackness. In Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race, Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus uncovers how black and white writers experimented with innovative narrative strategies to revise static and stereotypical views of black identity and experience. In this provocative and challenging book, Daniels-Rauterkus contests the long-standing idea that African Americans did not write literary realism, along with the inverse misconception that white writers did not make important contributions to African American literature. Taking up key works by Charles W. Chesnutt, Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain, Daniels-Rauterkus argues that authors blended realism with romance, often merging mimetic and melodramatic conventions to advocate on behalf of African Americans, challenge popular theories of racial identity, disrupt the expectations of the literary marketplace, and widen the possibilities for black representation in fiction. Combining literary history with close textual analysis, Daniels-Rauterkus reads black and white writers alongside each other to demonstrate the reciprocal nature of literary production. Moving beyond discourses of racial authenticity and cultural property, Daniels-Rauterkus stresses the need to organize African American literature around black writers and their meditations on blackness, but she also proposes leaving space for nonblack writers whose use of comparable narrative strategies can facilitate reconsiderations of the complex social order that constitutes race in America. With Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race, Daniels-Rauterkus expands critical understandings of American literary realism and African American literature by destabilizing the rigid binaries that too often define discussions of race, genre, and periodization.
The Racial Imaginary
The Racial Imaginary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Racial Imaginary write by Claudia Rankine. This book was released on 2015. The Racial Imaginary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frank, fearless letters from poets of all colors, genders, classes about the material conditions under which their art is made.
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation write by David L. Eng. This book was released on 2019-01-17. Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.
