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Reading Race Relationally : Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels /
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-Prize-winning 2016 novel, was widely praised for articulating the violence of chattel slavery and its aftermath. In contrast, his earlier novels were repeatedly criticized for not taking »race« seriously enough. Marlon Lieber argues that cri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
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[2023]
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| Colección: | Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reading, Race, Relationally
- Racial Ideology and Literary Criticism
- Thinking Relationally
- Reading Relationally
- Chapter Overview
- 1. Reading the Past, Writing the Future: The Intuitionist
- Literary Tradition and Racial Community
- Embodying History
- Racialized Domination and Theatricality
- The End(s) of African American Literature
- Elevatorness and Objecthood
- 2. Ab/uses of History: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt
- It is (Not) Always Mississippi in the Fifties
- L'invention du temps perdu
- A Tale of Three Names and One City
- Family Matters
- The History of Struggles
- 3. (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? Sag Harbor
- Post-Black, Post-Class?
- Putting the Black Bourgeoisie on the Map
- Delinking Fate
- Cursed Grammar
- Bildung vs. Manners
- 4. Money, Abstraction, Cultural Production: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt Revisited
- Mercenaries in the Marketplace
- Field Work
- x Words = y Dollars, or, a Value-Form Theoretical Excursus
- Adam in Commodity Paradise
- Out of This World
- 5. The Masterless Ocean: Zone One
- Beneath the Zombie Renaissance
- The Living Dead in the Long Downturn
- Monstrous Mobility
- The Apotheosis of Hysteresis
- Conclusion: To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence
- The Right Perspective
- Social Structures and Embodied Dispositions
- A Ruthless Engine
- To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence
- Without the Interference of Men
- Works Cited