LEADER 03913nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910451183703321 005 20220208161550.0 010 $a1-281-36354-5 010 $a9786611363543 010 $a0-230-60357-2 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230603578 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342460 035 $a(EBL)308389 035 $a(OCoLC)314776008 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000285545 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11248359 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285545 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10279128 035 $a(PQKB)11783849 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-60357-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC308389 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL308389 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10171494 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136354 035 $a(OCoLC)560566077 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342460 100 $a20060501d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhiteness, otherness, and the individualism paradox from Huck to Punk$b[electronic resource] /$fby Daniel S. Traber 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-53679-2 311 $a1-4039-7614-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-199) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aTraber 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndividualism in literature 606 $aIndividuality in literature 606 $aLiberty in literature 606 $aConformity in literature 606 $aDissenters in literature 606 $aMarginality, Social, in literature 606 $aWhite people in literature 606 $aWhite people$xRace identity$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndividualism in literature. 615 0$aIndividuality in literature. 615 0$aLiberty in literature. 615 0$aConformity in literature. 615 0$aDissenters in literature. 615 0$aMarginality, Social, in literature. 615 0$aWhite people in literature. 615 0$aWhite people$xRace identity 676 $a810.9/353 700 $aTraber$b Daniel S$0862950 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451183703321 996 $aWhiteness, otherness, and the individualism paradox from Huck to Punk$91926436 997 $aUNINA