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Racial Discourse in American Literature: A Collection of Essays
| Author: | Evans, Charlene | |
| Year: | 2023 | |
| Pages: | 696 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1056-5 978-1-4955-1056-4 | |
| Price: | $359.95 | |
Table of Contents
Unit I. European American Canon
Chapter 1: A Case Study of the Racial Rhetoric in Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes
Chapter 2: Representative Men: Emersonian Dialectics and African American Public Discourse
Chapter 3: Southern Hegemony and Racial Discourse in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Chapter 4: Death with Dignity in "Pantaloon in Black" and "Go Down Moses" by William Faulkner
Unit II. African American Canon
Chapter 5: Myth and Memory in Twelve Years a Slave, Kindred, Beloved, and The Good Lord Bird
Chapter 6: Analogous Indirect Messages of Opportunity: Claude McKay's Outcry Adjoining Countee Cullen's Inquiry
Chapter 7: Thinking "Outside the Box": Racial Hybridity in Jean Tommer's Cane
Chapter 8: Black Reality Revealed, White Nostalgia Interrupted: The Cautionary Tale of Lorraine Hansberry's The Drinking Gourd
Chapter 9: Ernest Gaines and the Beloved Community
Unit III. Expanding Genres
Chapter 10: Heroes of the Apocalypse: The Black, Brown, and Indigenous Futures of a Dystopian America Shaping of the Literary Canon
Chapter 11: Black Hollywood: 100 Plus Years of Black Men in Film
Chapter 12: Frame of Reference: A Socio-Economic View of the African American in Texas Through the Lens of Photography, Twentieth Century to the Present
Chapter 13: Ravager, Ravishing, and Ravished: The Settler Construction of Indigenous Sexuality in the "Indian Romantic" Novel Genre
Chapter 14: St. Clair Drake: Toward a Sociology of the Black Diaspora
Chapter 15: The Bible: Inspired Word or Inhumane Weapon
Chapter 16: Incidents in the Life of Ridah: An Analysis of Tupac Shakur's Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Chapter 17: The Mammy, Sapphire, and the Venus Hottentot: Black, Fat Women and Exercise Spaces
Appendix: African American Accomplishments and Challenges Timeline
Chapter 1: A Case Study of the Racial Rhetoric in Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes
Chapter 2: Representative Men: Emersonian Dialectics and African American Public Discourse
Chapter 3: Southern Hegemony and Racial Discourse in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Chapter 4: Death with Dignity in "Pantaloon in Black" and "Go Down Moses" by William Faulkner
Unit II. African American Canon
Chapter 5: Myth and Memory in Twelve Years a Slave, Kindred, Beloved, and The Good Lord Bird
Chapter 6: Analogous Indirect Messages of Opportunity: Claude McKay's Outcry Adjoining Countee Cullen's Inquiry
Chapter 7: Thinking "Outside the Box": Racial Hybridity in Jean Tommer's Cane
Chapter 8: Black Reality Revealed, White Nostalgia Interrupted: The Cautionary Tale of Lorraine Hansberry's The Drinking Gourd
Chapter 9: Ernest Gaines and the Beloved Community
Unit III. Expanding Genres
Chapter 10: Heroes of the Apocalypse: The Black, Brown, and Indigenous Futures of a Dystopian America Shaping of the Literary Canon
Chapter 11: Black Hollywood: 100 Plus Years of Black Men in Film
Chapter 12: Frame of Reference: A Socio-Economic View of the African American in Texas Through the Lens of Photography, Twentieth Century to the Present
Chapter 13: Ravager, Ravishing, and Ravished: The Settler Construction of Indigenous Sexuality in the "Indian Romantic" Novel Genre
Chapter 14: St. Clair Drake: Toward a Sociology of the Black Diaspora
Chapter 15: The Bible: Inspired Word or Inhumane Weapon
Chapter 16: Incidents in the Life of Ridah: An Analysis of Tupac Shakur's Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Chapter 17: The Mammy, Sapphire, and the Venus Hottentot: Black, Fat Women and Exercise Spaces
Appendix: African American Accomplishments and Challenges Timeline