Critiquing postmodernism in contemporary discourses of race

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Title:

Author:

Kim, Sue J.

ISBN:

9780230618749

Personal Author:

Kim, Sue J.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Houndmills [England] : Palgrave Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

xi, 196 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

The ideological fantasy of Otherness postmodernism -- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and the politics of form -- Not three worlds but one: Thomas Pynchon and the invisibility of race -- Analyzing the rreal: Bessie Head's literary psychosis.

Abstract:

"Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the political and economic structures that shape issues of race in literary studies. Kim's revelatory book shows how reading authors through their identity ends up neglecting both complex historical contexts and aesthetic forms. This comprehensive study calls for a reconsideration of the bases for critical engagement and a reading ethics that melds the best of historical and formalist approaches to literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject:

Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's rainbow.

Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. Dictée.

Head, Bessie, 1937-1986. Question of power.

Subject Term:

Postmodernism (Literature)

Other (Philosophy) in literature.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Race in literature.

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Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the political and economic structures that shape issues of race in literary studies. Kim s revelatory book shows how reading authors through their identity ends up neglecting both complex historical contexts and aesthetic forms. This comparative study calls for a reconsideration of the bases for critical engagement and a reading ethics that melds the best of historicist and formalist approaches to literature.