Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2019
- ISBN 9780198838098
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages178 pages
- Size 238x162x17 mm
- Weight 428 g
- Language English 16
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Short description:
Studies the role popular literature in the systematic racism present in easy-going activities, ordinary
feelings, and casual interactions. The volume uncovers this history of 'racial ordinariness' through various genres such as campus novels, Civil War elegies, regionalist sketches, and gospel sermon.
Long description:
How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly asymptomatic? Challenging the prevailing literary critical inclination toward what makes texts exceptional or distinctive, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States underscores the urgent importance of genre for tracking conventionality as it enters into, constitutes, and reproduces ordinary life.
In the wake of emancipation's failed promise, two developments unfolded: white supremacy amassed new mechanisms and procedures for reproducing racial hierarchy; and black freedom developed new practices for collective expression and experimentation. This new racial ordinary came into being through new literary and cultural genres--including campus novels, the Ladies' Home Journal, Civil War elegies, and gospel sermons. Through the postemancipation interplay between aesthetic conventions and social norms, genre became a major influence in how Americans understood their social and political affiliations, their citizenship, and their race.
Travis M. Foster traces this thick history through four decades following the Civil War, equipping us to understand ordinary practices of resistance more fully and to resist ordinary procedures of subjugation more effectively. In the process, he provides a model for how the study of popular genre can reinvigorate our methods for historicizing the everyday.
Foster's study is especially valuable in the wake of George Floyd's murder in May 2020 and the subsequent urgent debates around racism.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Genres of the New Racial Ordinary
Campus Novels, Camaraderie, and White Nationalist Merriment
The Ladies Home Journal, Sororal Publics, and the Wages of White Womanhood
Elegies, White Dissent, and the Civil War Dead
Gospel Sermons, Christian Fellowship, and the Conventions of Freedom
Epilogue
