How Whiteness Claimed the Future : : The Always New vs The Always Now in US-American Literature / / Mariya Nikolova.
Interested in the ideological workings of fiction, I study how major avant-garde tropes promote the potential of permanent renewal as white America’s property. Renewal ties to the capacities to create, progress, transcend, and simply be. From Black critique we know that, within dominant discourse, a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Frictions ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (V, 178 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Before chapter one
- Movement
- 1 The Spectrum of white violence & spectral blackness in Don DeLillo’s Zero K
- 2 Reaching the limit, or how Kathy Acker used blackness to abandon Haiti and arrive home safely
- 3 Against dominant visuality, or the cut as critique*
- Futurity
- 4 Ten easy steps to inherit the future. Visualizing renewal and the old prodigal boy in Marylinne Robinson’s Gilead
- 5 Another town, another story
- 6 Beloved endings*
- Newness
- 7 Newness and negativity in the northern history of the new
- 8 Instead of conclusion*
- 9 Acknowledgements
- Works cited
- Index