Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009204157
"This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary representations of Blackness and embodiment. It centers Black thinking about Black embodiment from current, diverse, and intersectional perspectives"--
Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009204173
Whether invisible or hyper-visible, adored or reviled, from the inception of American literature the Black body has been rendered in myriad forms. This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The book is divided into three sections that highlight Black embodiment through conceptual flashpoints that emphasize various aspects of human body in its visual and textual manifestations. This Companion engages past and continuing debates about the nature of embodiment by showcasing how writers from multiple eras and communities defined and challenged the limits of what constitutes a body in relation to human and nonhuman environment.
Author : Travis M. Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108841929
This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.
Author : Travis M. Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110889609X
The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a material encumbrance. Each of these different approaches brings with it a range of anthropological, political, theological, and psychological discourses that explore and construct identities and subject positions. This Companion examines connections between American literature and bodies from the eighteenth century through the present. It reveals the singular way that literature can help us understand the body's entanglement within social and biological influences, and it traces the body's existence within histories of race, gender, and ability. This volume details the genres, critical fields, and interpretive practices that best facilitate the analysis of bodies in the full span of American literary imaginings.
Author : Deirdre Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1107139244
"Post-World War II mass migration to Great Britain altered its demographic composition more markedly than in any other period in its history, resulting in a modern multicultural nation state shaped by the ethnic diversity of its citizenry. Populations from African, Caribbean, and South Asian locations arriving in Britain post-war brought diasporic sensibilities and literary heritages that have profoundly transformed British national culture, leading to a more complex and inclusive sense of its past. The Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) examines the creative impact of this rich infusion upon English literature against the backdrop of the seismic social and economic changes triggered by colonialism and migration, multiculturalism, and contemporary globalization"--
Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108835651
A comprehensive study of how American racial history and culture have shaped, and have been shaped by, American literature.
Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009184148
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovation, it considers the history, practice, and future directions of the field. Examining various historical forces shaping the creation of innovative genres, the turn to the afterlife of slavery, the pull toward protest, and the impact of new and expanded geographies and methods, this Companion provides an invaluable point of reference for readers seeking rigorous and cutting-edge analyses of contemporary African American literature.
Author : Justine Tally
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827855
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher. Innovative contributions from internationally recognized critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her work to American studies and world literature. This comprehensive and accessible approach, together with a chronology and guide to further reading, makes this an essential book for students and scholars of African American literature.
Author : Ezra Tawil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107048761
This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Author : Sean Pryor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009498878
This Companion offers an engaging and accessible introduction to key concepts in the study of poetry and poetics.
