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The social imperative : race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism
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The social imperative : race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism / Paula M. L. Moya.
ISBN
9780804795708
0804795703
9780804797023
0804797021
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xiii, 206 pages ; 23 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : 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 Muñoz's "Zigzagger"
Dismantling the master's house : the search for decolonial love in Junot Díaz'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.
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