Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity aims to explain and to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which literary criticism has come to organize its attention to literary texts around this primary object of analysis, the racial body.
Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity aims to explain and to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which literary criticism has come to organize its attention to literary texts around this primary object of analysis, the racial body.
John Donald Kerkering is an Associate Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago.
List of Figures
Introduction
PART I
New Critical Subjects: From Prosody to Identity
1 Prosodists and Postpositivists
2 Prosodists and Racialists
3 Ontology and Objectivity
4 Race and Realism
5 Resistance and Submission
PART II
You're One of Them, Ion: Aesthetic Rhapsody and Racial Identity
6 Aesthetics and Perception
7 Race and Peoplehood
8 Archaeology and Rhapsody
9 Race and Rhapsody
10 Analysis and Aesthetics
11 Aesthetics and Identity
12 Colors and Lines
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index