LEADER 03669nam 2200637 450 001 9910797751103321 005 20230126213618.0 010 $a0-8047-9703-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804797030 035 $a(CKB)3710000000513382 035 $a(EBL)4414760 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001581996 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16257027 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001581996 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12900480 035 $a(PQKB)11168449 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4414760 035 $a(DE-B1597)564068 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804797030 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4414760 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11176373 035 $a(OCoLC)930024233 035 $a(OCoLC)1198929657 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000513382 100 $a20150602h20162016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe social imperative $erace, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism /$fPaula M.L. Moya 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-9702-1 311 $a0-8047-9570-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : schemas and racial literacy -- Racism is not intellectual : the dialogic potential of multicultural literature -- Not one and the same thing : the ethical relationship of selves to others in Toni Morrison's Sula -- Another way to be : vestigial schemas in Helena Maria Viramontes's "The moths" and Manuel Mun?oz's "Zigzagger" -- Dismantling the master's house : the search for decolonial love in Junot Di?az's "How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie" -- The misprision of mercy : race and responsible reading in Toni Morrison's A mercy -- Conclusion : reading race. 330 $aIn the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between reader and text as a type of friendship, the book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema to show that our multiple social contexts affect what we perceive and how we feel when we read. Championing and modeling a kind of close reading that attends to how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, Paula M. L. Moya demonstrates the power of works of literature by writers such as Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, and Helena Maria Viramontes to alter perceptions and reshape cultural imaginaries. Insofar as literary fiction is a unique form of engagement with weighty social problems, it matters not only which specific works of literature we read and teach, but also how we read them, and with whom. This is what constitutes the social imperative of literature. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xSocial aspects 606 $aRace in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a813.009/355 686 $aEC 2460$2rvk 700 $aMoya$b Paula M. L.$01026585 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797751103321 996 $aThe social imperative$93852044 997 $aUNINA