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Power relations in black lives : reading African American literature and culture with Bourdieu and Elias / / Christa Buschendorf (editor)



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Titolo: Power relations in black lives : reading African American literature and culture with Bourdieu and Elias / / Christa Buschendorf (editor) Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2017]
©2017
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 155.43
Soggetto topico: Racism in literature
African Americans - Politics and government
African Americans - History and criticism
Soggetto non controllato: African American Literature
America
American Studies
Black Culture
Capital
Cultural Sociology
Cultural Studies
Established-Outsider Relationships
Field
Habitus
Literary Studies
Norbert Elias
Pierre Bourdieu
Political Activism
Power Asymmetries
Power Imbalances
Power Relations
Racism
Rap Music
Social Relations
Sociological Theory
Sociology of Literature
Symbolic Violence
Classificazione: HU 1728
Persona (resp. second.): BuschendorfChrista
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Contents 7 Preface 9 Introduction 11 Satin-Legs Smith and a Mississippi Mother 35 Intellectual Disposition and Bodily Emotion 55 "You have to leave home to find home" 77 (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? 101 "You People Almost Had Me Hating You Because of the Color of Your Skin" 123 Black Women's Business 145 "What's the Position You Hold?" 165 "Decolorized for Popular Appeal" 183 Understanding Ferguson 205 Transformations of Oppression 237 Introducing Disagreement 257 Contributors 281
Sommario/riassunto: According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin
Besprochen in: Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit, Rundbrief, 1 (2018)
Titolo autorizzato: Power Relations in Black Lives  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-8394-3660-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910476929903321
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Serie: American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; ; Volume 17.