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  1. Violent Disruptions
    American Imaginations of Racial Anxiety in William Faulkner and Richard Wright
  2. Violent Disruptions
    Autor*in: Chavers, Linda
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Violent Disruptions examines two authors who have powerfully predicted the formation of racial identities and its surrounding discourse in the United States today: William Faulkner (1897–1962) and Richard Wright (1908–1960). Using the works of... mehr

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    Violent Disruptions examines two authors who have powerfully predicted the formation of racial identities and its surrounding discourse in the United States today: William Faulkner (1897–1962) and Richard Wright (1908–1960). Using the works of Faulkner and Wright, this text argues that race becomes visible only through image production and exchange. Further, it argues that following the dismantling of our legally upheld racial inequality and everyday racist language, it is precisely the visual register wherein we see most acutely the continued present-day operation of racial inequality. Violent Disruptions thus places William Faulkner and Richard Wright at the center of our current dramas in the 21st century in popular television, political theater and criminal justice. "This fascinating study brings Richard Wright and William Faulkner to bear on present-day questions of race and justice in the United States. A compelling read for anyone interested in the interconnections between race and American literature." -- (Anders Walker, Associate Dean for Research and Engagement, Lillie Myers Professor, Center for International and Comparative Law, Saint Louis University)...

     

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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9781433142192
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    DDC Klassifikation: Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch (810)
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed.
    Schriftenreihe: American University Studies ; 63
    Schlagworte: Ethnische Beziehungen <Motiv>; Ethnische Identität <Motiv>
    Weitere Schlagworte: Faulkner, William (1897-1962); Wright, Richard (1908-1960)
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  3. Violent Disruptions
    American Imaginations of Racial Anxiety in William Faulkner and Richard Wright
    Autor*in: Chavers, Linda
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated, New York

    Violent Disruptionsexamines two authors who have powerfully predicted the formation of racial identities and its surrounding discourse in the United States today: William Faulkner (1897-1962) and Richard Wright (1908-1960) Cover -- Table of Contents... mehr

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    Violent Disruptionsexamines two authors who have powerfully predicted the formation of racial identities and its surrounding discourse in the United States today: William Faulkner (1897-1962) and Richard Wright (1908-1960) Cover -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- What Are You? -- Definition of Terms -- Literary Implications -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1. The Fourteenth Truth -- I Who Regard You -- Contradiction and the Assumption of Whiteness -- Interracial Reconnaissance -- Wait, Wait! -- Fantasy in Faulkner's Interracial Fiction -- Thomas Sutpen: The New White Man -- Whiteness and Naming -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2. White Blurs and Black Sex: Fatal Imaginings in Richard Wright's Native Son -- Native Son: The Past Isn't Past -- The Imagination as Evidence and Witnessin the Courtroom: Bigger and Buckley'sIntimate Relationship -- Threesomes: Interracial Sex and the Roles of the Physical, the Imaginative and the Viewers -- The Trajectory of a Murderer -- Harsh Realities and Arousing Fantasies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3. Play and Death in Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children -- From Lynching to Drowning -- Wright's Origins Tale-What Is Behind "Big Boy"? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4. Violations and Disruptions in Faulkner's Light in August -- The Passing of Bodies and Notes: Genealogical-Literary Links between Charles Bon, JoeChristmas, Bigger Thomas, and Big Boy -- Christmas's Interracial Body and Its(Mis)Recognition: Interracial Disorientation -- Inside/Outside and the Foreignness of Self-Knowledge in Faulkner's South -- The Forgetfulness of Knowledge and the Privileged Position of the Interracial -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5. Conclusion or, "Wait!" -- Notes -- Works Cited

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433142192
    Schriftenreihe: American University Studies ; v.63
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