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Violent disruptions : American imaginations of racial anxiety in William Faulkner and Richard Wright / Linda Chavers.
Van Pelt Library PS3511.A86 Z75463 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chavers, Linda, 1982- author.
- Series:
- American university studies. Comparative literature ; Series III, v. 63.
- American University studies. Series III, Comparative literature ; vol. 63
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.
- Faulkner, William.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wright, Richard.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- Race awareness in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Multiracial people in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 111 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2019]
- Summary:
- Violent disruptions: American imaginations of racial anxiety in William Faulkner and Richard Wright 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.
- Contents:
- Prologue: what are you?
- Fade out: questions of identity and the spectacular violence of race in Absalom, Absalom!
- What we kill for: the lethality of a white supremacist imagination in Native son
- Seductive violence and bloody freedom in Uncle Tom's children
- Stranger danger: passing threats in Light in August
- Conclusion: who are we?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781433142185
- 143314218X
- OCLC:
- 1039456538
- Publisher Number:
- 99979447988
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