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Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance
This book offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem Renaissance. Author Mar Gallego effectively uncovers the presence of a subversive component in five of these novels (by James Weldon Johnson, George Schuyler, Nella Larsen, and Jessie Fauset), turning them into useful tools to explore the passing phenomenon in all its richness and complexity. Her compelling study intends to contribute to the ongoing revision of the parameters conventionally employed to analyze passing novels by drawing attention to a great variety of textual strategies such as double consciousness, parody, and multiple generic covers. Examining the hybrid nature of these texts, Gallego skillfully highlights their radical critique of the status quo and their celebration of a distinct African American identity. Well researched and stimulating to read, Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance is an impressive work of scholarship and interpretat
The Dangerous Potential of Reading
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance
This book expands the discourse on the Harlem Renaissance into more recent crucial areas for literary scholars, college instructors, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and Harlem Renaissance aficionados. These selected essays, authored by mostly new critics in Harlem Renaissance studies, address critical discourse in race, cultural studies, feminist studies, identity politics, queer theory, and rhetoric and pedagogy. While some canonical writers are included, such as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke, others such as Dorothy West, Jessie Fauset, and Wallace Thurman have equal footing. Illustrations from several books and journals help demonstrate the vibrancy of this era. Australia Tarver is Associate Professor of English at Texas Christian University. Paula C. Barnes is an Associate Professor of English at Hampton University.
Myth and Ritual in African American and Native American Literatures
Se analizan aspectos generales y específicos de la influencia de los mitos y rituales en las literaturas afro-americana y nativo-americana, desde una doble perspectiva: individual y comparativa. Por tanto se explora temas relacionados con la temática propuesta como la concepción mítica del universo que ambas comunidades comparten, el papel crucial de una relación armoniosa con la naturaleza como fuente para alcanzar una compresión plena de las identidades individuales y colectivas, una visión del mundo en clara oposición a una cultura egocéntrica propugnada por el sistema racial dominante en Estados Unidos, y los múltiples modos en los que actividades cotidianas como contar historias, coser y cocinar adquieren un profundo carácter ritualístico.
Atlantic Crossing in the Wake of Frederick Douglass
Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass takes its bearings from the Maryland-born former slave Frederick Douglass’s 1845 sojourn in Ireland and Britain—a voyage that is understood in editors Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins’ collection as paradigmatic of the crossings between American, African American, and Irish historical experience and culture with which the collection as a whole is concerned. In crossing the Atlantic, Douglass also completed his journey from slavery to freedom, and from political and cultural marginality into subjective and creative autonomy. Atlantic Crossings traces the stages of that journey in chapters on literature, archaeology, and spatial cultur...
The British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essay from 1701 to 2021
While the it-narrative, the thing-poem and thing theatre have been around for some time, the essay – which is often considered literature’s fourth genre – is still lacking its thing-subgenre. Yet, particularly British and Anglo-Irish literature display a long, albeit so far implicit tradition of texts that can be categorised as ‘thing-essays’: Starting with Jonathan Swift’s “Meditation upon a Broomstick” (1701) and continuing until today, these texts draw broader insights from the contemplation of a material item of daily life. This book provides the first theoretical conceptualisation of this genre. Bringing elements from essay studies and the New Materialisms together, it s...
Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands
Exploring how borders and conceptualizations of borders impact on issues of self and group identity, 13 essays are presented by Benito (American literature, U. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) and Manzanas (American literature, U. of Salamanca, Spain). The essays look at English language literature from North America and the Caribbean, including works by Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Louise Erdrich, Rudolfo Anaya, Richard Rodriguez, and Harriet Wilson. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Enemies Within
Can citizenship rights be denied to significant groups in a society that regards itself as civilized and self-governing? Is it possible to exclude such people in the name of freedom and reason? Is it plausible to explain classifications that differentiate between first- and second-class citizens as “natural”? This is the paradox inherent in modern politics, born of the revolutions that ended the Ancien Régime in the western world. Throughout the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth, liberalism inspired a representative form of government that appealed to citizenship, yet marginalized many social groups, including natives, women, immigrants, workers, slaves and nomads...
