"Offering an accessible introduction to the history of race, this volume shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. It addresses the centrality of race in American literatureby foregrounding the conflicts across different traditions and modes of interpretation"--
Offering an accessible introduction to the history of race, this volume shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. It addresses the centrality of race in American literature by foregrounding the conflicts across different traditions and modes of interpretation.
Race is central to American history. It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding how race has been defined and deployed at every stage of the nation's history. Offering a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of race, The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. Written by leading scholars in in African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies, the essays in this volume address the centrality of race in American literature by foregrounding the conflicts across different traditions and different modes of interpretation. This volume explores the unsteady foundations of American literary history, examines the hardening of racial fault lines throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, and then considers various aspects of the multiple literary and complexly interrelated traditions that emerged from this fractured cultural landscape.
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A comprehensive study of how American racial history and culture have shaped, and have been shaped by, American literature.
Introduction John Ernest; Part I. Foundations:
1. Tracing Race Travis
Foster;
2. Racial Management and Technologies of Care Malini Johar Schueller;
Part II. Backgrounds:
3. Still looking for the Meaning of Whiteness in
American Literature Valerie Babb;
4. From Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock:
Hospitality, Settler Colonialism, and 400 Years of Indigenous Literary
Resistance Drew Lopenzina;
5. Racing Latinidad Renee Hudson;
6. African
American Literature's One Long Memory Chris Freeburg;
7. Race and the Mythos
of Model Minority in Asian American Literature Swati Rana; Part III. The
Dynamics of Race and Literary Dynamics:
8. 'Dramatic Race': Democratic
Lessons of Twenty-First Century African American Drama Frank Obenland;
9.
Beyond Humanization: Decolonization, Relationality, and Twenty-First Century
Indigenous Literatures René Dietrich;
10. Shades of Whiteness and the Enigma
of Race: Racial In-Betweenness and American Literature Mita Banerjee;
11.
There is Here: Immigration Law and the Literature of Belonging Jeannie
Pfaelzer; Part IV. Rethinking American Literature:
12. Race, Revision, and
William Wells Brown's Miralda Brigitte Fielder;
13. 'Here's to Chicanos in
the Middle Class!': Culture, Class, and The Limits of Chicano Literary
Activism José Antonio Arellano;
14. Pulping the Racial Imagination Kinohi
Nishikawa;
15. Recognition, Urban NDN Style: The Social Poetics of Pre-1980s
Intertribal Newspapers Siobhan Senier; Part V. Case Studies:
16. Uncle Tom's
Cabin and the Question of Race Claire Parfait;
17. The Legacy of Toni
Morrison: Black Writers, Invisibility and Intimacy Stephanie Li; Suggested
Readings.
John Ernest is the Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor and Department Chair of English at the University of Delaware. He is author of over forty-five essays and author or editor of thirteen books, including Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative (2014). With Stephanie Lee, he is the co-editor of Elements in Race and US Literature and Culture, a series published by Cambridge University Press.
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