The Bounds of Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance

Published by Cornell University Press 1992

The Bounds of Race

Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance

Edited by: Dominick LaCapra

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727481

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About this book

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 to contemporary modes of thought.

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Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books, including History, Literature, Critical Theory; History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Dominick Lacapra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the Afro-American Tradition Henry Louis Gates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Moving On Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermon Hortense J. Spillers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racism Nancy Leys Stepan and Sander L. Gilman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
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 Michael Goldfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism Kwame Anthony Appiah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
6. Autoethnography: The An-archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road Françoise Lionnet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
7. "The Very House of Difference": Race, Gender, and the Politics of South African Women's Narrative in Poppie Nongena Anne McClintock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
8. Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness In Southern African Fiction Stephen Clingman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
9. The Subversive Poetics of Radical Bilingualism: Postcolonial Francophone North African Literature Samia Mehrez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
10. Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Difference José Piedra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
11. Drawing the Color Line: Kipling and the Culture of Colonial Rule Satya P. Mohanty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Keywords: History

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Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9781501727481