The social imperative : race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism /

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In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship betw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moya, Paula M. L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.
Temas:
American fiction > History and criticism.
American fiction > Social aspects.
Race in literature.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > Aspect social.
Race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Race in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : schemas and racial literacy
  • Racism is not intellectual : the dialogic potential of multicultural literature
  • Not one and the same thing : the ethical relationship of selves to others in Toni Morrison's Sula
  • Another way to be : vestigial schemas in Helena Maria Viramontes's "The moths" and Manuel Muñoz's "Zigzagger"
  • Dismantling the master's house : the search for decolonial love in Junot Díaz's "How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie"
  • The misprision of mercy : race and responsible reading in Toni Morrison's A mercy
  • Conclusion : reading race.

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