Description
| Product ID: | 9781108487399 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture |
| Title: | Race in American Literature and Culture |
| Authors: | Author: John Ernest |
| Page Count: | 466 |
| Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: from c 1900 -, USA, English, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century |
| Description: | A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies. It explores how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. Exploring the unsteady foundations of American literary history, Race in American Literature and Culture examines the hardening of racial fault lines throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth while considering aspects of the literary and interrelated traditions that emerged from this fractured cultural landscape. A multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in the American imagination, the book pushes debate in exciting new directions. Offering expert explorations of how the history of race has been represented and written about, it shows in what ways those representations and writings have influenced wider American culture. Distinguished scholars from African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies foreground the conflicts in question across different traditions and different modes of interpretation, and are thus able comprehensively and creatively to address in the volume how and why race has been so central to American literature as a whole. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-16 |
