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Description
This dynamic study of the history of the idea of race traces the concept from its prehistory across 400 years to its current status. Brian Niro introduces key theorists and philosophers and a wide variety of literary and theoretical concepts, taking the central view that the notion of race is a fluid concept that has altered consistently since its inception in Western ideology.
Starting with Greek philosophy, Niro moves effortlessly through such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Voltaire, Kant, Mary Shelly, Darwin, Fanon and Achebe in order to explore the representation of race in its various guises. Many contemporary discussions of race are intricate and limited in their scope to current doctrine, but by using a series of close readings of often-studied texts, Niro helps to demonstrate key ideas and make complex theories understandable.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: FALSE ORIGINS: THE GREEKS, METHODOLOGY, ETYMOLOGY AND SHAKESPEARE
Theory, Practice and Origins
The Greeks: Plato and Aristotle
Methodology and Travel Writing
Etymology and Shakespeare
Transition
PART TWO: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE FABRICATION OF RACE
The Enlightenment: Fabrication of Race
Defoe and Racial Malleability
Frankenstein's Imperial Paranoia
Transition
PART THREE: SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITY AND APPROPRIATION
Charles Darwin
Counter-narratives, Degeneration and Eugenics
Kipling's Duality and Degenerative Subversion
Transition
PART FOUR: MODERNITY, ORIENTALISM, NEGRITUDE AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RACE
Modernism as Movement Toward the Postcolonial
Orientalism
Negritude
Encounters with Racism: Achebe, Conrad and Kane
Transition
PART FIVE: AMERICA
Placing Race: The One Drop Rule
The Harlem Renaissance and Passing: Black Art and the Disappearing Trope of Race
Cane and Passing
The Impossibility of an American Race
Transition: Conclusion, Introduction and Return
Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography
Index.
Product details
Published | 14 Mar 2017 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 198 |
ISBN | 9781403937780 |
Imprint | Red Globe Press |
Series | Transitions |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |