Racial Worldmaking - The Power of Popular Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Mark C. Jerng is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging . Klappentext Mark C. Jerng is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging .Examines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Racial Worldmaking Part I. Yellow Peril Genres Chapter 1. Worlds of Color Chapter 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization Part II. Plantation Romance Chapter 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War Chapter 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception Part III. Sword and Sorcery Chapter 5. The "Facts" of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds Chapter 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism Part IV. Alternate History Chapter 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation Chapter 8. World War II and Uncertain Forms of Racial Organization Conclusion: Towards an Anti-racist Racial Worldmaking Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Mark C. Jerng
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780823277759
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7775-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Comparative Theology: Thinking; Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions; Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions; Comparative Theology: Thinking
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies