05591nam 2200913 a 450 991081269190332120200520144314.01-283-21038-X97866132103881-60473-040-41-4175-0698-9(CKB)111090425051388(OCoLC)614929068(CaPaEBR)ebrary10157863(SSID)ssj0000590553(PQKBManifestationID)12179843(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000590553(PQKBWorkID)10670067(PQKB)10047464(SSID)ssj0000159598(PQKBManifestationID)11164535(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159598(PQKBWorkID)10159758(PQKB)11687674(MiAaPQ)EBC746926(Au-PeEL)EBL746926(CaPaEBR)ebr10157863(CaONFJC)MIL321038(EXLCZ)9911109042505138820020222d2002 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe fugitive race minority writers resisting whiteness /Stephen P. Knadler1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippic20021 online resource (274 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-934110-34-5 1-57806-506-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-238) and index.Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction: "Fugitive Race" Culture -- The Fugitive Race -- 1. Narrative Interruptions of Panic -- 2. Miscegenated Whiteness -- 3. "Corporeal Suspicion" -- 4. Unacquiring Negrophobia -- 5. Dis-integrating Third Spaces -- 6. White Dissolution -- 7. Queer Aztlan, Mestizing "White" Queer Theory -- Coda: Anti-Racist Apartheid -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Footnote -- ch05fn1.Denying its formative dialogues with minorities, the white race, Stephen P. Knadler contends, has been a fugitive race. While the "white question," like the "Negro question," and the "woman question" a century earlier, has garnered considerable critical attention among scholars looking to find new anti-race strategies, these investigations need to highlight not just the exclusion of people of color, but also examine minority writers' resistance to and disruption of this privileged racial category. "Highly original, wonderfully detailed, and thought provoking," says Professor Candace Waid of Knadler's intellectually challenging book. Although excluded, people of color looked back in anger, laughter, and wisdom to challenge the unexamined lie of a self-evident whiteness. Looking at fictional and nonfictional texts written between 1850 and 1984, The Fugitive Race traces a long cultural and literary history of the ways African Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Chicanos, gays, and lesbians have challenged the shape and meaning of so-called white identities. From the antebellum period to the 1980s, the belief in a white racial superiority, or simply a white difference, has denied that people of color might and do have an influence on the supposedly pure or protected character of whiteness. In contrast, this book attempts to define a new way of analyzing minority literature that questions this segregated color line. In addition to creating a new racial awareness, many writers of color tried to interfere in the historical formulation of whiteness. They created unsettling moments when white readers had to see themselves for the first time from the outside-in, or from the critical perspective of non-white writers. These writers--including William Wells Brown, Pauline Hopkins, Abraham Cahan, Young-hill Kang, Zora Neale Hurston, and ArturoIslas--did not simply resist assimilation. They sought to dismantle the white identities that lay as the foundation of the master's house. Stephen P. Knadler, an assistant professor of English at Spelman College, has been published in American Literature , American Literary History , American Quarterly , Minnesota Review , and Modern Fiction Studies.American literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismMinoritiesUnited StatesIntellectual lifeHuman skin colorPsychological aspectsIdentity (Psychology) in literatureHuman skin color in literatureGroup identity in literatureEthnic groups in literatureMinorities in literatureEthnicity in literatureWhites in literatureWhite in literatureRace in literatureAmerican literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.MinoritiesIntellectual life.Human skin colorPsychological aspects.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Human skin color in literature.Group identity in literature.Ethnic groups in literature.Minorities in literature.Ethnicity in literature.Whites in literature.White in literature.Race in literature.810.9/920693Knadler Stephen P.1963-1679640MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812691903321The fugitive race4048041UNINA