ISBN:
9780823277766
,
9780823277759
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 284 Seiten
,
23 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jerng, Mark C. Racial worldmaking
DDC:
813.5093552
Keywords:
American fiction History and criticism
;
English fiction History and criticism
;
Racism in literature
;
Asians in literature
;
Blacks in literature
;
Group identity in literature
;
Race discrimination United States
;
Literature and society
;
American fiction History and criticism
;
English fiction History and criticism
;
Racism in literature
;
Asians in literature
;
Blacks in literature
;
Group identity in literature
;
Race discrimination United States
;
Literature and society
;
USA
;
Literatur
;
Ethnische Gruppe
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Rassismus
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
Rassenverfolgung
Abstract:
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 World -- Conclusion: On the Possibilities of an Antiracist Racial Worldmaking
Abstract:
"Examines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law" --
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 253-275
