Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-349-38140-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 274 g

Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the political and economic structures that shape issues of race in literary studies. Kim s revelatory book shows how reading authors through their identity ends up neglecting both complex historical contexts and aesthetic forms. This comparative study calls for a reconsideration of the bases for critical engagement and a reading ethics that melds the best of historicist and formalist approaches to literature.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Postmoderne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Ideological Fantasy of Otherness Postmodernism Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and the Politics of Form Not Three Worlds but One: Thomas Pynchon and the Invisibility of Race Analyzing the Real: Bessie Head's Literary Psychosis Concluding Notes

Über Autor(innen)

SUE J. KIMis Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.