Racial Rhapsody - The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.s. Identity

Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity aims to explain and to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which literary criticism has come to organize its attention to literary texts around this primary object of analysis, the "racial" body.

List of contents

List of Figures

Introduction
PART I

New Critical Subjects: From Prosody to Identity

1 Prosodists and Postpositivists
2 Prosodists and Racialists
3 Ontology and Objectivity
4 Race and Realism
5 Resistance and Submission
PART II

"You’re One of Them, Ion": Aesthetic Rhapsody and Racial Identity

6 Aesthetics and Perception
7 Race and Peoplehood
8 Archaeology and Rhapsody
9 Race and Rhapsody
10 Analysis and Aesthetics
11 Aesthetics and Identity
12 Colors and Lines

Conclusion
Bibliography

Index

About the author

John Donald Kerkering is an Associate Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago.

Summary

Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity aims to explain and to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which literary criticism has come to organize its attention to literary texts around this primary object of analysis, the "racial" body.

Product details

• Authors: John Donald Kerkering
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032094878
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3209487-8
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000