Writing and Race

List of contents

1. Introduction, Tim Youngs 2. 'Philosophers among the savages', Michael K. Green 3. 'A monstrous race for possession. Discourses of monstrosity in The Tempest and early British America', Geas Mackenthun 4. 'Racial identity and self-invention in North America: the Red and the Black', David Murray 5. Once upon a time in America: race, ethnicity and narrative remembrance', Liam Kennedy 6. 'Appropriating a tradition: history and identity in the work of Maryse Condé', Sam Haigh 7. 'Race and the modernist aesthetic', Simon Gikandi 8. 'White apes at the fin de siècle', Tim Youngs 9. 'Hunting the pederast: Richard Burton's exotic erotology', Chris White 10. 'Alfred W. Howitt and Lorimer Fison: Victorian ethnography and the gendered primitive', Lynnette Turner 11. 'The disappearing other: exoticism and the destruction in Jack London's South Sea writings', Christopher Gair 12. 'Modernity and racism', Richard H. King Extracts Bibliography

About the author

Tim Youngs is Professor of English, Culture and Media at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Summary

This text presents the current state in interdisciplinary racial studies, looking in detail at the construction, perception and representation of race in a variety of literature. The essays examine style, figures of speech, settings, narrative devices and historical social situations.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Youngs, Youngs Tim
• Assisted by: Tim Youngs (Editor), J B Bullen (Editor of the series), Paul Hyland (Editor of the series), Neil Sammells (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138439948
• ISBN: 978-1-138-43994-8
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Crosscurrents
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural anthropology, Literature: history and criticism