| Race-Ing the Century Contributor(s): Banerjee, Mita (Author) |
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ISBN: 3825350282 ISBN-13: 9783825350284 Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter OUR PRICE: $75.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2005424865 |
| Series: American Studies - A Monograph |
| Physical Information: 457 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What do Charlie Chan and William Faulkner have in common? This study starts out from the assumption that there may well be a continuity between literature and popular culture in the racialized images they perpetuate. Looking at twentieth century American literature, film, music, and art, this book suggests that strategies of exclusion and of resistance are mutually constitutive. Where a 1920s Western audience yearned for exoticism, Josephine Baker donned a scanty costume of bird feathers and enchanted a white audience by singing to them from within a gilded cage. Looking at African American, Asian American, Chicano/a, and Native American cultural productions as constituting a rainbow coalition, this study seeks to chart out the terrain of a multi-ethnic nation, a nation to which, as El Vez, the Mexican Elvis, asserts, everyone is welcome - even the mainstream itself. |
