Negotiating Difference Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality

Name: Negotiating Difference Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality
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ISBN: 9780226033013

ISBN-10: 0226033015

ISBN-13: 9780226033013

Edition: 1995

Authors: Michael Awkward

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Encamped within the limits of experience and "authenticity," critics today often stake out their positions according to race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, and vigilantly guard the boundaries against any incursions into their privileged territory. In this book, Michael Awkward raids the borders of contemporary criticism to show how debilitating such "protectionist" stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing our cultural boundaries. From Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It to Michael Jackson's physical transmutations, from Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon to August Wilson's Fences, from male scholars' investments in feminism to white scholars' in black texts--Awkward explores…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading across the Lines



Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reading



A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism



Negotiations of Power: White Critics, Black Texts, and the Self-Referential Impulse



Representing Rape: On Spike, Iron Mike, and the "Desire Dynamic"



"Unruly and Let Loose": Myth, Ideology, and Gender in Song of Solomon



"The Crookeds with the Straights": On Fences, Race, and the Politics of Adaptation



"A Slave to the Rhythm": Essential(ist) Transmutations; or, The Curious Case of



Notes


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