Carlyle Thompson

Broschiertes Buch

The Tragic Black Buck

Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination, Second Edition

Herausgegeben: Thompson, Carlyle V.

Beschreibung

The new edition of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a challenge to the racial hegemony of biological white supremacy. Fitzgerald convincinglyand boldly shows how racial passing by light-skinned Black individuals becomes the most fascinating literary trope associated with democracy and the enduring desire for the American Dream.

Autor

Carlyle Van Thompson is Professor of African American Literature and American Literature at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. Thompson is the former Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Education at Medgar Evers College and former Series Editor at Peter Lang Publishers Inc. As the author of three scholarly books, sixteen edited books, and numerous scholarly articles on Richard Wright, Nella Larsen, Ernest J. Gaines, Abner Louima, Toni Morrison, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thompson¿s current scholarship focuses on the challenges of young Black males in academia. Thompson lives in New York City.

Produktdetails

• African-American Literature and Culture 1
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 317680
• 3., überarb. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781433176807
• ISBN-10: 1433176807
• Artikelnr.: 58748307

Rezensionen

"The Tragic Black Buck is a worthy successor to the sort of imaginative literary reconstruction initiated in Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark. Her suggestive program of reading blackness as the implicit backdrop of white American literary and cultural identities is richly fleshed out in Carlyle Van Thompson's impressive volume. Joining Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner in a single volume is a stroke of vivid literary reading. Too rarely have we had literary investigations that examine towering white and black figures as co-creators of an artistic convention and cultural practice. Thompson's interweaving of biographical and cultural features of these writers' lives and their novels furthers his sagacious argument about racial passing as a complex, evolving, and hence multi-textured practice and identity. The virtue of such a move is that it underscores how a racial practice like passing is never simply a one-sided affair. Professor Thompson shows us in lucid fashion how white and black identities are never the sole possession of black and white people. Blackness and whiteness are created out of the complex and intricate interplay between cultural, racial, and social forces that are larger than a fastidiously bi-polar paradigm suggests."-Michael Eric Dyson, Avaion Foundation Professor of Humanities and African-American Studies, the University of Pennsylvaniania

"The Tragic Black Buck is a worthy successor to the sort of imaginative literary reconstruction initiated in Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark. Her suggestive program of reading blackness as the implicit backdrop of white American literary and cultural identities is richly fleshed out in Carlyle Van Thompson's impressive volume. Joining Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner in a single volume is a stroke of vivid literary reading. Too rarely have we had literary investigations that examine towering white and black figures as co-creators of an artistic convention and cultural practice. Thompson's interweaving of biographical and cultural features of these writers' lives and their novels furthers his sagacious argument about racial passing as a complex, evolving, and hence multi-textured practice and identity. The virtue of such a move is that it underscores how a racial practice like passing is never simply a one-sided affair. Professor Thompson shows us in lucid fashion how white and black identities are never the sole possession of black and white people. Blackness and whiteness are created out of the complex and intricate interplay between cultural, racial, and social forces that are larger than a fastidiously bi-polar paradigm suggests."-Michael Eric Dyson, Avaion Foundation Professor of Humanities and African-American Studies, the University of Pennsylvaniania