Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Individualism, Success, and American Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man African American Review Volume 30, Number 3 (Autumn, 1996)   pages 403-419 Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan The title character in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man embodies the paradox of race and color because he is…

  • In one of his posthumously published essays Georges Bataille poses a question that we might borrow to consider the narratological and epistemological quandaries at the heart of Nella Larsen’s telling of racial unbelonging in her 1929 novella, Passing. Bataille writes, “why must there be what I know? Why is it a necessity? . . .…

  • Passing as White: The Life Altering Effects on Loved Ones Southern Connecticut State University May 2006 122 pages Publication Number: AAT 1435422 ISBN: 9780542641824 Kathleen Daubney A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master of Science This thesis analyzes the theme of passing…

  • In “Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture,” Susan Gubar, who fundamentally changed the way we think about women’s literature as co-author of the acclaimed The Madwoman in the Attic, turns her attention to the incendiary issue of race.

  • Stonequist’s Concept of “The Marginal Man” in Langston Hughes’ Play Mulatto International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature ISSN 2200-3592 (Print), ISSN 2200-3452 (Online) Volume 1, Number 4 (September 2012) pages 125-130 Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand University of Tehran, Iran Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh, Assistant Professor of Letters and Humanities Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Born…

  • A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama Harvard University Press May 2010 192 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches no illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674050969 Robert B. Stepto, Professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired…

  • Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers Routledge 2012-07-11 234 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65367-1 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-80189-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-85989-6 Lauren Onkey, Vice President of Education and Public Programs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Cleveland, Ohio Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between…

  • The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences Routledge 2010-06-23 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65278-0 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88125-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-84498-4 Edward Beasley, Associate Professor of History San Diego State University In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The ‘races’ familiar to…

  • In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. “The Romance of Race” examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism.

  • Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies University of Georgia Press 2013-02-01 288 pages 5 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-4435-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4436-2 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4479-9 Claudia Milian, Associate Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies Duke University With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies…