Racial Worldmaking : The Power of Popular Fiction /

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Examines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jerng, Mark C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Andrae, A.
Unterhaltungsliteratur
Schwarze > Motiv
Rassismus > Motiv
Rassismus
Literatur
Ethnische Identität > Motiv
Ethnische Gruppe > Motiv
Asiaten > Motiv
Racism in literature.
Race discrimination.
Literature and society.
Group identity in literature.
English fiction.
Black people in literature.
Asians in literature.
American fiction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature et societe.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Personnes noires dans la litterature.
Asiatiques dans la litterature.
Racisme dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > Histoire et critique.
Race discrimination > United States.
English fiction > History and criticism.
American fiction > History and criticism.
USA
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Racial Worldmaking; Part I: Yellow Peril Genres; 1. Worlds of Color; 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization; Part II: Plantation Romance; 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War; 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception; Part III: Sword and Sorcery; 5. The "Facts" of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds; 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism; Part IV: Alternate History; 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation; 8. Alternate Histories of World War II.
  • Or, How the Race Concept Organizes the WorldConclusion: On the Possibilities of an Antiracist Racial Worldmaking; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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