Blackness and Value - Seeing Double

Klappentext The book traces several interrelations between value and race! and offers relevant and fresh readings of two novels by Ann Petry. Zusammenfassung The book traces several interrelations between value and race! and offers fresh readings of two novels by Ann Petry. While approaches to race and value are commonly examined historically or sociologically! this intriguing study provides a new critical approach that speaks to theorists of race as well as gender and queer studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Violence and the unsightly: 2. Figures of violence; 3. Figuring others of value; 4. (Further) figures of violence; Part II. Reasonings and Reasonableness: 5. De-marking limits; Part III. Phonic and Scopic Economies: 6. Signs of others; 7. Signs of the visible.

Product details

• Authors: Lindon Barrett, Lindon (University of California Barrett, Barrett Lindon, Barrett Lindon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521109956
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10995-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Miscellaneous; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000