04101nam 22009255 450 991097009690332120240801024540.09786611363543978128136354112813635459780230603578023060357210.1057/9780230603578(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(Perlego)3508051(EXLCZ)99100000000034246020151130d2007 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhiteness, Otherness and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk /by D. Traber1st ed. 2007.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2007.1 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349536795 1349536792 9781403976147 1403976147 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.EthnologyCultureLiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingLiterature, Modern19th centuryLiterature, Modern20th centuryRegional Cultural StudiesLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryNineteenth-Century LiteratureTwentieth-Century LiteratureCultural StudiesEthnology.Culture.LiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.Literature, ModernLiterature, ModernRegional Cultural Studies.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.Cultural Studies.810.9/353Traber Daniel S1791130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970096903321Whiteness, Otherness and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk4328029UNINA