Writing and Race

ISBN-13: 9780582273757 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 334 str.

John Lucas; Tim Youngs

Opis

This text presents the current state in interdisciplinary racial studies, looking in detail at the construction, perception and representation of race in a variety of literature. The essays examine style, figures of speech, settings, narrative devices and historical social situations.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, Tim Youngs  2. 'Philosophers among the savages', Michael K. Green  3. 'A monstrous race for possession. Discourses of monstrosity in The Tempest and early British America', Geas Mackenthun  4. 'Racial identity and self-invention in North America: the Red and the Black', David Murray  5. Once upon a time in America: race, ethnicity and narrative remembrance', Liam Kennedy  6. 'Appropriating a tradition: history and identity in the work of Maryse Condé', Sam Haigh  7. 'Race and the modernist aesthetic', Simon Gikandi  8. 'White apes at the fin de siècle', Tim Youngs  9. 'Hunting the pederast: Richard Burton's exotic erotology', Chris White  10. 'Alfred W. Howitt and Lorimer Fison: "Victorian" ethnography and the gendered "primitive"', Lynnette Turner  11. 'The disappearing other: exoticism and the destruction in Jack London's South Sea writings', Christopher Gair  12. 'Modernity and racism', Richard H. King  Extracts  Bibliography

O autorze

Tim Youngs is Professor of English, Culture and Media at Nottingham Trent University, UK.