TY - BOOK AU - Appiah,Kwame Anthony AU - Clingman,Stephen AU - Gates,Henry Louis AU - Gilman,Sander L. AU - Goldfield,Michael AU - LaCapra,Dominick AU - Lacapra,Dominick AU - Lionnet,Françoise AU - McClintock,Anne AU - Mehrez,Samia AU - Mohanty,Satya P. AU - Piedra,José AU - Spillers,Hortense J. AU - Stepan,Nancy Leys TI - The Bounds of Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance SN - 9781501727481 AV - PN56.R16 B68 1991 U1 - 809/.93355 20 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - African Americans in literature KW - Black people in literature KW - Black people KW - Race identity KW - Blacks in literature KW - Blacks KW - Ethnicity KW - Race in literature KW - History KW - HISTORY / Historiography KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the Afro-American Tradition --; 2. Moving On Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermon --; 3. Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racism --; 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 --; 5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism --; 6. Autoethnography: The An-archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road --; 7. "The Very House of Difference": Race, Gender, and the Politics of South African Women's Narrative in Poppie Nongena --; 8. Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness In Southern African Fiction --; 9. The Subversive Poetics of Radical Bilingualism: Postcolonial Francophone North African Literature --; 10. Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Difference --; 11. Drawing the Color Line: Kipling and the Culture of Colonial Rule --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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. The eleven essays comprising The Bounds of Race confront this challenge with insight, rigor, and imagination.The authors take on questions of language, genre, and politics with reference to African-American, Anglo-American, African, South African, Francophone North African, British, and Afro-Hispanic texts. Individual chapters discuss writings from an array of genres including homily, autobiography, the novel, children's literature, and political and scientific discourse. Taken together, the essays argue persuasively that the existing canon must be expanded, that the protocols of interpretation must be transformed to make a prominent place for such issues as race, and that the problem of interpretation cannot be posed in the absence of theoretically informed modes of historical investigation.The Bounds of Race provides a subtle analysis of the variable role of racial ideologies and traces the interplay between hegemonic constraints and the strategies of resistance to them UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727481 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501727481 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501727481/original ER -