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Autore |
Traber Daniel S |
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Titolo |
Whiteness, otherness, and the individualism paradox from Huck to Punk [[electronic resource] /] / by Daniel S. Traber |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36354-5 |
9786611363543 |
0-230-60357-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - History and criticism |
Individualism in literature |
Individuality in literature |
Liberty in literature |
Conformity in literature |
Dissenters in literature |
Marginality, Social, in literature |
White people in literature |
White people - Race identity - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-199) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "They're after Us!": Criminality and Hegemony in Huckleberry Finn; 2 Stephen Crane and Maggie's White Other; 3 One of None: Quasi-Hybridity in The Sun Also Rises; 4 Back to the Future: Suttree (and The Pioneers); 5 L.A. Punk's Sub-Urbanism; 6 Repo Man, Ambivalence, and the Generic Mediation; 7 Whither Agency?; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Traber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant culture. He draws on critical theory, whiteness and cultural studies to counter an eager correlation between marginality and agency. The nonconformist cultural politics of these border crossings implode since |
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