Literature and Racial AmbiguityPosted in Anthologies, Books, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Passing on 2012-10-13 01:25Z by Steven |
Literature and Racial Ambiguity
Rodopi
2002
320 pages
8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
Hardback ISBN: 978-90-420-1428-2 / 90-420-1428-8
Paperback ISBN: 978-90-420-1418-3 / 90-420-1418-0
Edited by:
Teresa Hubel, Associate Professor of English
Huron University College in London, Ontario
Neil Brooks, Associate Professor of English
Huron University College at Western University, London, Ontario
Contents
- Neil Brooks and Teresa Hubel: Introduction
- 1. Peter Clandfield: “What Is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the work of Jackie Kay
- 2. Neluka Silva: “Everyone was Vaguely Related”: Hybridity and the Politics of Race in Sri Lankan Literary Discourses in English
- 3. Teresa Zackodnik: Passing Transgressions and Authentic Identity in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun and Nella Larsen’s Passing
- 4. Myriam Perregaux: Whiteness as Unstable Construction: Kate Pullinger’s The Last Time I Saw Jane
- 5. Bella Adams: Becoming Chinese: Racial Ambiguity in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
- 6. Jennifer Sparrow: Strategic Créolité. Caliban and Miranda after Empire
- 7. Jennifer Gibbs: White Identity and the New Ethic in Faulkner’s Light In August
- 8. Elizabeth DeLoughrey: White Fathers, Brown Daughters: the Frisbie Family Romance and the American Pacific
- 9. Rita Keresztesi Treat: Writing Culture and Performing Race in Mourning Dove’s Cogewea, The Half-Blood ‘(1927)
- 10. Kathryn Nicol: Visible Differences: Viewing Racial Identity in Toni Morrison’s Paradise and “Recitatif”
- 11. Yvette Tan: Looking Different/Rethinking Difference: Global Constants and/or Contradictory Characteristics in Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies and Adib Kalim’s Seasonal Adjustments
- 12. Margaret D. Stetz: Jessie Fauset’s Fiction: Reconsidering Race and Revising Aestheticism
- 13. Paul Allatson: “I May Create A Monster”: Cherríe Moraga’s Transcultural Conundrum
- 14. Michele Hunter: Revisiting the Third Space: Reading Danzy Senna’s Caucasia
- Notes on the Authors