Thompson The Tragic Black Buck

Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination, Second Edition
3. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4331-6540-5
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 256 Seiten

Reihe: African-American Literature and Culture

The new edition of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a challenge to the racial hegemony of biological white supremacy. Fitzgerald convincinglyand boldly shows how racial passing by light-skinned Black individuals becomes the most fascinating literary trope associated with democracy and the enduring desire for the American Dream.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Carlyle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments – Preface to the First Edition – Preface to the Second Edition – Introduction: Black Bucks Being as White as They Wanna Be: The Historical and Theoretical Roots of Black People Passing for White – “The Circular Ruins” of Passing: Race, Class, and Gender in Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars – The Improvisational and Faustian Performance in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man – The Tragic Black Buck: Jay Gatsby’s Passing in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – Joe Christmas, a Black Buck with Attitude: The Virulent Nexus of Race and Color in William Faulkner’s Light in August – Conclusion – Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Carlyle Van Thompson is Professor of African American Literature and American Literature at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. Thompson is the former Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Education at Medgar Evers College and former Series Editor at Peter Lang Publishers Inc. As the author of three scholarly books, sixteen edited books, and numerous scholarly articles on Richard Wright, Nella Larsen, Ernest J. Gaines, Abner Louima, Toni Morrison, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thompson’s current scholarship focuses on the challenges of young Black males in academia. Thompson lives in New York City.