Negotiating difference : race, gender, and the politics of positionality
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Negotiating difference : race, gender, and the politics of positionality
(Black literature and culture)
University of Chicago Press, 1995
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-219) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this text, the author raids the borders of contemporary criticism to show how debilitating "protectionist" stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing cultural boundaries. From Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It" to Michael Jackson's physical transmutations, from male scholars' investments in feminism to white scholars' in black texts - Awkward explores cultural moments that challenge the exclusive critical authority of race and gender. In each instance he asks: What do artists, scholars and others concerned with representations of Afro-American life make of the view that gender, race and sexuality circumscribe their own and others' lives and narratives? In pursuing a black male feminist criticism, the study acknowledges the complexities of interpretation in an age when a variety of powerful discourses have proliferated on the subject of racial, gendered and sexual difference. It also identifies this proliferation as an opportunity to negotiate seemingly fixed cultural and critical positions.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading across the Lines 1: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reading 2: A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism 3: Negotiations of Power: White Critics, Black Texts, and the Self-Referential Impulse 4: Representing Rape: On Spike, Iron Mike, and the "Desire Dynamic" 5: "Unruly and Let Loose": Myth, Ideology, and Gender in Song of Solomon 6: "The Crookeds with the Straights": On Fences, Race, and the Politics of Adaptation 7: "A Slave to the Rhythm": Essential(ist) Transmutations
- or, The Curious Case of Michael Jackson Notes Index
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