The Cambridge companion to race and American literature / edited by John Ernest.

Other author Ernest, John.
Other author Cambridge University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Descriptionpages cm
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SeriesCCL Cambridge companions to literature
Contents Introduction / John Ernest -- Tracing race / Travis Foster -- Racial management and technologies of care / Malini Johar Schueller -- Still looking for the meaning of Whiteness in American literature / Valerie Babb -- From Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock : hospitality, settler colonialism, and 400 years of Indigenous literary resistance / Drew Lopenzina -- Racing Latinidad / Renee Hudson -- African American literature's one long memory / Chris Freeburg -- Race and the mythos of model minority in Asian American literature / Swati Rana -- 'Dramatic race': democratic lessons of twenty-first century African American drama / Frank Obenland -- Beyond humanization : decolonization, relationality, and twenty-first century Indigenous literatures / René Dietrich -- Shades of Whiteness and the enigma of race : racial in-betweenness and American literature / Mita Banerjee -- There is here : immigration law and the literature of belonging / Jeannie Pfaelzer -- Race, revision, and William Wells Brown's Miralda / Brigitte Fielder -- 'Here's to Chicanos in the middle class!' : culture, class, and the limits of Chicano literary activism / José Antonio Arellano -- Pulping the racial imagination / Kinohi Nishikawa -- Recognition, urban NDN style : the social poetics of pre-1980s intertribal newspapers / Siobhan Senier -- Uncle Tom's cabin and the question of race / Claire Parfait -- The legacy of Toni Morrison : Black writers, invisibility and intimacy / Stephanie Li.
Abstract "Offering an accessible introduction to the history of race, this volume shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. It addresses the centrality of race in American literature by foregrounding the conflicts across different traditions and modes of interpretation"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2023051980
ISBN9781108835657 (hardback)
ISBN9781108812993 (paperback)
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