ISBN:
9783839463468
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Lettre
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
605
Keywords:
Sociology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
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