Racechanges - White Skin, Black Face in American Culture

Zusatztext Gubar presents an intensely thought provoking investigation of the cultural space inhabited by artists, writers and entertainers whose work, intentionally or not, challenges the notion of a fixed opposition between black and white. Susan Gubar is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. She has co-authored and co-edited a range of books with Sandra Gilbert, from The Madwoman in the Attic (a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award) to The Norton Anthology of Literature byWomen. Klappentext This book examines racial impersonations - i.e.! blackface - in modern American film! fiction! poetry! painting! photography! and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others. She draws from an extensive range of illustrative work! with examples from high and low culture! from turn-of-the century to present day. Zusammenfassung This work examines racial impersonations - blackfaces - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Gubar, Susan (Distinguished Professor Gubar, Susan Kamholtz Gubar
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.2000
• EAN: 9780195134186
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513418-6
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Race and American Culture; Race and American Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General