Race in American Literature and Culture

Exploring the unsteady foundations of American literary history, Race in American Literature and Culture examines the hardening of racial fault lines throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth while considering aspects of the literary and interrelated traditions that emerged from this fractured cultural landscape. A multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in the American imagination, the book pushes debate in exciting new directions. Offering expert explorations of how the history of race has been represented and written about, it shows in what ways those representations and writings have influenced wider American culture. Distinguished scholars from African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies foreground the conflicts in question across different traditions and different modes of interpretation, and are thus able comprehensively and creatively to address in the volume how and why race has been so central to American literature as a whole.

Product details

• Authors: John Ernest, John (University of Delaware) Ernest
• Assisted by: John Ernest (Editor), John (University of Delaware) Ernest (Editor), Ernest John (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781108487399
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48739-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to African American / Black American people