The Bounds of Race : : Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance / / ed. by Dominick LaCapra.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Appiah, Kwame Anthony,; Clingman, Stephen,; Gates, Henry Louis,; Gilman, Sander L.,; Goldfield, Michael,; Lacapra, Dominick,; Lionnet, Françoise,; McClintock, Anne,; Mehrez, Samia,; Mohanty, Satya P.,; Piedra, José,; Spillers, Hortense J.,; Stepan, Nancy Leys,
• HerausgeberIn: LaCapra, Dominick,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

The concept of race is central to one of the most powerful ideological formations in history, Dominick LaCapra argues in his introduction to this volume, and understanding the effects of that ideology and its intricate relations with issues of class and gender is one of the most pressing challenges...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the Afro-American Tradition
• 2. Moving On Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermon
• 3. Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racism
• 4. The Color of Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanation for the Peculiarities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Present
• 5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism
• 6. Autoethnography: The An-archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road
• 7. "The Very House of Difference": Race, Gender, and the Politics of South African Women's Narrative in Poppie Nongena
• 8. Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness In Southern African Fiction
• 9. The Subversive Poetics of Radical Bilingualism: Postcolonial Francophone North African Literature
• 10. Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Difference
• 11. Drawing the Color Line: Kipling and the Culture of Colonial Rule
• Notes on Contributors
• Index