Signs of race in poststructuralism : toward a transformative theory of race / Robert Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Poststructuralism.

Physical Description:

xi, 163 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2009]

Summary:

This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race. The author positions this fundamental question at the heart of his project: why does race still work if it is commonly misunderstood to be a social construct? The answer is that race works because it operates like a commodity, and like any commodity, as long as it generates value (understood in the widest possible sense: economic, political, and cultural-ideological value), it will remain in circulation. This study should contribute to our understanding of race by linking questions of use value to exchange value.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Race as Commodity Fetish 1

Chapter 2 Putting Materialism back into Race Theory: Toward A Transformative Theory of Race 39

Chapter 3 The Linguistic Turn, Materialism, and Race: The Postmodern Crisis in African-American Literary Theory and Richard Wright's Critique of Ideology 59

Chapter 4 The Politics of Race and Psychoanalysis: Richard Wright's Critique of Bourgeois Subjectivity in Savage Holiday 85

Chapter 5 Oral Textualities, Oral (Blues) Poetics, and Oral Erotics: Disabling the Exchange Economy in Gayl Jones' Corregidora 115.

ISBN:

9780761845065

0761845062

9780761845058

0761845054

9780761845072

0761845070

OCLC:

301882049