Race and displacement : nation, migration, and identity in the twenty-first century /

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This book captures a set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions. The multifaceted approach of the essays in this book allows for nuanced discussions of race and di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marouan, Maha, 1975- (Editor ), Simmons, Merinda, 1981- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Temas:
Race relations in literature.
Refugees in literature.
Culture conflict in literature.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Relations raciales dans la littérature.
Réfugiés dans la littérature.
Conflit culturel dans la littérature.
Déplacement (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Culture conflict in literature
Displacement (Psychology) in literature
Race relations in literature
Refugees in literature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreward [sic] / Houston A. Baker Jr.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Philip D. Beidler
  • Reflections on 'race and displacement' / Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine
  • Part I. Race and bodies. Lady Eve's garden sings the blues : spirituality and identity in Gloria Naylor's 'Bailey's Café' / Regina N. Bradley ; Blackqueer aesthesis : sexuality and the rumor and gossip of Black gospel / Ashon T. Crawley ; Practice of embodiment : transatlantic crossings and Black female sexuality in Nella Larsen's 'Quicksand' / Deborah Katz ; Returning from "Beyond the Bridge" : postcolonial hybridity in Gloria Naylor's 'Mama Day' / Matthew Dischinger
  • II. Race and place. Immigrant desire : contesting Canadian safety and whiteness in Dionne Brand's 'In Another Place, Not Here' / Lauren Vedal ; Beyond race and nation : The African American Barbary Captivity Narrative of Robert Adams / Melanie Fritsch ; Upon the public highways : travel and race in Charles W. Chesnutt's 'The Marrow of Tradition' / Walter Bosse
  • III. Race and nation. Washing the Ethiop Red : Sir Francis Drake and the Cimarrons of Panama / Cassander L. Smith ; Nations, migration, and Met́is subsistence, 1860-1940 / Delia Hagen ; Disorientation in Julie Otsuka's 'When the Emperor Was Divine' : the imprisoned spaces of Japanese Americans during World War II / Abigail G.H. Manzella
  • IV. Race and imagination. Moreau avec Cuvier, Kant avec Sade : Saint Domingue, Sara Baartman, and the technologies of imperial desire / Jonathan Glover ; Oracular swan song? : American literary modernism, modernity, and the Trope of Lynching in Jean Toomer's 'Cane' / Yumi Pak ; Cultural schizophrenia and postcolonial identity in Derek Walcott's 'Dream on Monkey Mountain' and Bernadine Evaristo's 'Lara' / Kathrin Kottemann
  • Afterword. Complexities of home / Trudier Harris.

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