03913nam 2200805Ia 450 991045118370332120220208161550.01-281-36354-597866113635430-230-60357-210.1057/9780230603578(CKB)1000000000342460(EBL)308389(OCoLC)314776008(SSID)ssj0000285545(PQKBManifestationID)11248359(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285545(PQKBWorkID)10279128(PQKB)11783849(DE-He213)978-0-230-60357-8(MiAaPQ)EBC308389(Au-PeEL)EBL308389(CaPaEBR)ebr10171494(CaONFJC)MIL136354(OCoLC)560566077(EXLCZ)99100000000034246020060501d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhiteness, otherness, and the individualism paradox from Huck to Punk[electronic resource] /by Daniel S. Traber1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53679-2 1-4039-7614-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-199) and index.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; IndexTraber 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 the transgressive identity the protagonists desire relies upon, is built from, the center's values and definitions. An orthodox notion of individualism underpins each act of sovereignty as it rationalizes exploiting stereotypes of an Other constructed by the center. The work closes by positing a theory of identity based on Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of the emptied self. In recognizing the already mixed quality of being, identity is made a vacuous concept as the standards for determining self and difference become too slippery to hold.American literatureHistory and criticismIndividualism in literatureIndividuality in literatureLiberty in literatureConformity in literatureDissenters in literatureMarginality, Social, in literatureWhite people in literatureWhite peopleRace identityUnited StatesElectronic books.American literatureHistory 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 peopleRace identity810.9/353Traber Daniel S862950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451183703321Whiteness, otherness, and the individualism paradox from Huck to Punk1926436UNINA