Jerng Racial Worldmaking

The Power of Popular Fiction
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8232-7778-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Examines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jerng, Mark C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Racial WorldmakingPart I. Yellow Peril GenresChapter 1. Worlds of ColorChapter 2. Futures Past of Asiatic RacializationPart II. Plantation RomanceChapter 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil WarChapter 4. Reconstructing Racial PerceptionPart III. Sword and SorceryChapter 5. The “Facts” of Blackness and Anthropological WorldsChapter 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial CapitalismPart IV. Alternate HistoryChapter 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of EmancipationChapter 8. World War II and Uncertain Forms of Racial OrganizationConclusion: Towards an Anti-racist Racial WorldmakingNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Jerng Mark C.:
Mark C. Jerng is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging.Mark C. Jerng is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging.