Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-21379-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies

Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging provides a fresh look at the complex dialogue of race and identity in memoir, examining three generations of biracial African Americans’ experiences in their autobiographies. Exploring writers from James McBride and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip to Barack Obama, Toi Dericotte, Natasha Trethway, Rebecca Walker, and Emily Raboteau, this volume explores the ways in which these memoirists refute terms regarding race and simple understandings of belonging, using their contested embodied positions as sites for narration, quest, and protest. Organized chronologically, this volume will provide readers insight into memoirs from Jim Crow America to the Civil Rights period and finally those considering the post-soul (and post-Loving v. Virginia) generation. Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging interrogates these difficult spaces surrounding identity construction, encouraging new conversations surrounding visibility of mixed-race individuals and experiences for future generations. Through archives and personal testimony, this book provides a model for interweaving theoretical and personal accounts of color in American culture to encourage discussions that transgress disciplinary boundaries in the today’s dialogue.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stamant, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Relationality, Identification, and the One-Drop Rule

Hospitality, Inheritance, and Collective Memory

Organization

Chapter 1: Haunting and "The new America": Living with Jim Crow

Passing: Spectral Temporality & Surveillance

"home in language": Proprioceptive Subjectivity

Chapter 2: Memorials and Filiality in the Civil Rights Era

"The words to tell the story": Driven to Memorialize

Still Haunted: Postmemory and Place-Memory

Chapter 3: Movement Children: The Post-Soul Generation

"Belonging is my birthright": Being Post-Soul

The Paradox of Hospitality

Conclusion: Considering Genetic Identity

Coda

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Nicole Stamant, author of Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives (Palgrave, 2014), is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Agnes Scott College, where she specializes in Life Writing Studies. She earned her PhD in English from Texas A&M University and her articles have appeared in ARIEL, MELUS, a/b: Auto/Biography, South Central Review, and Studies in Comics among others. She has contributed to a number of edited collections; most recently Consumption and the Literary Cookbook (Routledge 2020). In 2018, she received the Agnes Scott Vulcan Materials Company Teaching Excellence Award.