Race and Sex Across the French Atlantic - The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse

Informationen zum Autor By Frieda Ekotto Klappentext Race and Sex across the French Atlantic is a critical reconceptualization of the contributions of France and the French-speaking world to race relations in the continental United States. Radically re-evaluating the work of French and Francophone cultural icons such as Jean Genet, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon and Dany Laferriere, this book makes use of untapped historical archival records that link these writers to important African-American political activists and intellectuals such as Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin and the Black Panthers, and even to the white American writer Norman Mailer. Which Color is Black? argues that re-evaluating the "Franch Atlantic" - characterized by Quebec, France, Belgium, the French Caribbean and French-speaking Africa - may fundamentally reshape present transatlantic notions of race and sexuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter One: The Blacks and the Whites: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Race between Lorraine Hansberry and Jean Genet Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Categorical Reason and Empire: Genet's Use of the N Word Chapter 4 Chapter 3: It's About the N Word Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Eroshima: The Meeting of the Black Man and the White Woman Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Angel of History

Product details

• Authors: Frieda Ekotto, Ekotto Frieda
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780739141144
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4114-4
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: general, Francophone Literature;Literary Studies