Black bourgeois : class and sex in the flesh /

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"Bourgeois in the Flesh examines how late 20th and early 21st century African American literary texts grapple with the dilemma of black bourgeois subjectivity"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Candice Marie, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Temas:
1900-2099
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Class consciousness in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Human body in literature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Conscience de classe dans la littérature.
Classes sociales dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
American literature.
American literature > African American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Black and bourgeois dilemma
  • New bourgeoisie, old bodies: performing post-Civil Rights Black privilege in Tar Baby and School Daze
  • "Half of everything and certain of nothing": cultural mulattoes and racial property in Black, White, and Jewish and Caucasia
  • Mapping class: He Sleeps, Black Girl in Paris, and the gendered geography of Black labor
  • Interiority, anteriority, and the art of Blackness: erasure and the post-racial future
  • Flesh, agency, possibility: social death and the limits of progress in John Henry Days and Man Gone Down
  • Conclusion: Black and bourgeois in the #blacklivesmatter era.

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