ENGLISH

Postmodern literature and race

By Platt , Sara , Len; Upstone

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1107042488, 978-1-107-04248-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6564015 bytes)
Pages
301\316
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
IrishPostmodernism (Literature) Race in literature. PosScottishWelsh. Literatur. Postkolonialismus. Ethnizität.

Description

Postmodernism and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Gray, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing

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