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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453333203321

Autore

Rose Stephany <1978->

Titolo

Abolishing white masculinity from Mark Twain to hiphop : crises in whiteness / / Stephany Rose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-2284-X

0-7391-8123-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/35203034

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

White people in literature

Masculinity in literature

White people - Race identity - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ABOLISHING WHITE MASCULINITY FROM MARK TWAIN TO HIPHOP; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing Whiteness: White Authors and Hegemonic White Masculinities; Chapter One: 2000 and Late?: Passé Conversations on Race for a Post-Racial Nation; Chapter Two: "The Shame Is Ours, Not Theirs": Mark Twain's Battle with Racialism; Chapter Three: Invented Li(v)es: Gradations of Whiteness in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tribal Twenties; Chapter Four: Dispossessing Race: Abolishing Whiteness in Adam Mansbach's Angry Black White Boys; Conclusion: Dreaming of Post-Racism in a Racial Wonderland

BibliographyIndex; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop, a groundbreaking text in critical whiteness studies and literary criticism, looks toward white American male literature explicitly for racialized social commentary on the construction of whiteness, as an identity and power source. Works of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Adam Mansbach are probed for inward projections of imaginative fissures concerning the construction of white masculinity as ultimate



representations of white identity.