Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias (American Culture Studies, Bd. 17) - Softcover

 
9783837636604: Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias (American Culture Studies, Bd. 17)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837636607 ISBN 13: 9783837636604
Verlag: transcript, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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,

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christa Buschendorf (PhD, Professor em.) taught American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany).

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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, #BlackLivesMatter in Ferguson).

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Verlag
transcript
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3837636607
ISBN 13 
9783837636604
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
284
Herausgeber
Buschendorf Christa
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