Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity

ISBN-13: 9781032094878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 152 str.

John Donald Kerkering

Opis

Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity aims to explain and to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which literary criticism has come to organize its attention to literary texts around this primary object of analysis, the "racial" body.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Introduction

PART I

New Critical Subjects: From Prosody to Identity

1 Prosodists and Postpositivists

2 Prosodists and Racialists

3 Ontology and Objectivity

4 Race and Realism

5 Resistance and Submission

PART II

"You’re One of Them, Ion": Aesthetic Rhapsody and Racial Identity

6 Aesthetics and Perception

7 Race and Peoplehood

8 Archaeology and Rhapsody

9 Race and Rhapsody

10 Analysis and Aesthetics

11 Aesthetics and Identity

12 Colors and Lines

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

John Donald Kerkering is an Associate Professor of English atLoyola University Chicago.