Racial discourse and cosmopolitanism in twentieth-century African American writing
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書誌事項
Racial discourse and cosmopolitanism in twentieth-century African American writing
（Studies in African American history and culture）
Routledge, 2008
- : hbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-193) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book engages cosmopolitanism-a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality-in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers. Deeply influenced and inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois, the writers closely examined in this study-Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes and Albert Murray-have advanced cosmopolitanism to meet its own theoretical principals in the contested arena of racial discourse while remaining integral figures in a larger tradition of cosmopolitan thought. Rather than become mired in fixed categorical distinctions, their cosmopolitan perspective values the pluralist belief in the distinctiveness of different cultural groups while allowing for the possibility of inter-ethnic subjectivities, intercultural affiliations and change in any given mode of identification. This study advances cosmopolitanism as a useful model for like-minded critics and intellectuals today who struggle with contemporary debates regarding multiculturalism and universalism in a rapidly, yet unevenly, globalizing world.
目次
Credit Lines. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism 1. Cane's Betrayal and Jean Toomer's Untethered Universalism 2. The "Interminable Puzzles" of Race, Class and Gender in the Novels of Jessie Redmon Fauset 3. The Aesthetics of Particularity and the Politics of Integration: The Ways of White Folks and Langston Hughes's Work with Common Ground in the 1940s 4. The Fine Art Tradition of Albert Murray: Democratic Elitism and Rooted Cosmopolitanism. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index
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