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003 | DLC▲ | ||
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008 | 140826s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng ▲ | ||
010 | ▼a2014033137▲ | ||
020 | ▼a9781107042483 (hardback)▲ | ||
040 | ▼aDLC▼beng▼cDLC▲ | ||
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090 | ▼a809.9113▼bP858p▲ | ||
245 | 0 | 0 | ▼aPostmodern literature and race /▼c[edited by] Len Platt, Sara Upstone.▲ |
260 | ▼aNew York :▼bCambridge University Press,▼c2015.▲ | ||
300 | ▼axi, 301 p. ;▼c24 cm.▲ | ||
504 | ▼aIncludes bibliographical references and index.▲ | ||
505 | 8 | ▼aMachine generated contents note: 1. Critical histories: postcolonialism, postmodernism and race Bill Ashcroft; 2. Race and the crisis of the postmodern social novel Madhu Dubey; 3. Worlded localisms: cosmopolitics writ small David James; 4. Yellows, blacks, blues: the seductions of (black) postmodern detective fiction Bran Nicol; 5. Performing identity: intertextuality, race and difference in the South Asian novel in English Peter Morey; 6. Performing race in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark Abigail Ward; 7. Appropriate appropriation?: Ishmael Reed's hoodoo and Flannery O'Connor's artificial negroes John N. Duvall; 8. 'How Scottish I am': Alasdair Gray, race and neo-nationalism Len Platt; 9. 'Justabit fascist': Dubravka Ugre?i?, cosmopolitanism and the post-Yugoslav condition Vedrana Velickovic; 10. Postmodern prose and the discourse of the 'cultural Jew': the cases of Mailer and Foer David Witzling; 11. Race, comedy and tourism: the hideous embarrassments of Will Self's The Butt David Punter; 12. White male nostalgia in Don DeLillo's Underworld Tim Engles; 13. Postmodern revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes, Ballard Nick Bentley; 14. The whiteness of David Foster Wallace Samuel Cohen; 15. After the first decade: revisiting the work of Zadie Smith Philip Tew; 16. Racial neoliberalism and whiteness in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Sue J. Kim; 17. 'Some kind of black': black British historiographic metafictions and the postmodern politics of race Sara Upstone.▲ | |
520 | ▼a"Postmodern Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Grey, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing"--▼cProvided by publisher.▲ | ||
650 | 0 | ▼aPostmodernism (Literature)▲ | |
650 | 0 | ▼aRace in literature.▲ | |
650 | 0 | ▼aPostcolonialism in literature.▲ | |
700 | 1 | ▼aPlatt, Len.▲ | |
700 | 1 | ▼aUpstone, Sara.▲ | |
999 | ▼c김정이▲ |
Postmodern literature and race
Document Type
Foreign Book
Title
Postmodern literature and race / [edited by] Len Platt, Sara Upstone.
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015.
Physical Description
xi, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Machine generated contents note: 1. Critical histories: postcolonialism, postmodernism and race Bill Ashcroft; 2. Race and the crisis of the postmodern social novel Madhu Dubey; 3. Worlded localisms: cosmopolitics writ small David James; 4. Yellows, blacks, blues: the seductions of (black) postmodern detective fiction Bran Nicol; 5. Performing identity: intertextuality, race and difference in the South Asian novel in English Peter Morey; 6. Performing race in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark Abigail Ward; 7. Appropriate appropriation?: Ishmael Reed's hoodoo and Flannery O'Connor's artificial negroes John N. Duvall; 8. 'How Scottish I am': Alasdair Gray, race and neo-nationalism Len Platt; 9. 'Justabit fascist': Dubravka Ugre?i?, cosmopolitanism and the post-Yugoslav condition Vedrana Velickovic; 10. Postmodern prose and the discourse of the 'cultural Jew': the cases of Mailer and Foer David Witzling; 11. Race, comedy and tourism: the hideous embarrassments of Will Self's The Butt David Punter; 12. White male nostalgia in Don DeLillo's Underworld Tim Engles; 13. Postmodern revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes, Ballard Nick Bentley; 14. The whiteness of David Foster Wallace Samuel Cohen; 15. After the first decade: revisiting the work of Zadie Smith Philip Tew; 16. Racial neoliberalism and whiteness in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Sue J. Kim; 17. 'Some kind of black': black British historiographic metafictions and the postmodern politics of race Sara Upstone.
Summary Note
"Postmodern Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Grey, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9781107042483 (hardback)
Call Number
809.9113 P858p
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