{"product_id":"postmodern-literature-and-race-hardback-9781107042483","title":"Postmodern Literature and Race (Hardback) 9781107042483","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePostmodern Literature and Race\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith essays on a range of contemporary writers, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLen Platt (Edited by), Sara Upstone (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107042483, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e314 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePostmodernism Literature 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Critical histories: postcolonialism, postmodernism and race Bill Ashcroft\u003cbr\u003e 2. Race and the crisis of the postmodern social novel Madhu Dubey\u003cbr\u003e 3. Worlded localisms: cosmopolitics writ small David James\u003cbr\u003e 4. Yellows, blacks, blues: the seductions of (black) postmodern detective fiction Bran Nicol\u003cbr\u003e 5. Performing identity: intertextuality, race and difference in the South Asian novel in English Peter Morey\u003cbr\u003e 6. Performing race in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark Abigail Ward\u003cbr\u003e 7. Appropriate appropriation?: Ishmael Reed's hoodoo and Flannery O'Connor's artificial negroes John N. Duvall\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'How Scottish I am': Alasdair Gray, race and neo-nationalism Len Platt\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Justabit fascist': Dubravka Ugreši?, cosmopolitanism and the post-Yugoslav condition Vedrana Velickovic\u003cbr\u003e 10. Postmodern prose and the discourse of the 'cultural Jew': the cases of Mailer and Foer David Witzling\u003cbr\u003e 11. Race, comedy and tourism: the hideous embarrassments of Will Self's The Butt David Punter\u003cbr\u003e 12. White male nostalgia in Don DeLillo's Underworld Tim Engles\u003cbr\u003e 13. Postmodern revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes, Ballard Nick Bentley\u003cbr\u003e 14. The whiteness of David Foster Wallace Samuel Cohen\u003cbr\u003e 15. After the first decade: revisiting the work of Zadie Smith Philip Tew\u003cbr\u003e 16. Racial neoliberalism and whiteness in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Sue J. Kim\u003cbr\u003e 17. 'Some kind of black': black British historiographic metafictions and the postmodern politics of race Sara Upstone.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: National liberation \u0026amp; independence, post-colonialism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on National liberation \u0026amp; independence, post-colonialism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22National%20liberation%20\u0026amp;%20independence,%20post-colonialism%20%5BHBTR%5D%22\"\u003eHBTR\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: post-colonial literature [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: post-colonial literature\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20post-colonial%20literature%20%5BDSBH5%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH5\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913129976088,"sku":"9781107042483","price":83.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107042483i_b94e554a-8dcd-45c7-9ee7-294c9299b13d.jpg?v=1691361545","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/postmodern-literature-and-race-hardback-9781107042483","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}