Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts - Couverture souple

Livre 11 sur 11: SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures

Williams, Roland Leander

 
9781438489469: Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts
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ISBN 10 : 1438489463 ISBN 13 : 9781438489469
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2023

Synopsis

An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.

Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts uncovers a mode of behavior adopted by African Americans for relief from the brutality of black bondage. Roland Leander Williams grants that African Americans have been beaten, but he guarantees that they have not been broken. While he acknowledges that they have been demeaned, he assures that they have not been diminished. Williams confesses that African Americans have been done harm, but he confirms that they have not become disheartened. Close readings of classic slave narratives, along with some neo-slave narratives-including The Conjure Woman (1899), Kindred (1979), Dessa Rose (1986), and The Good Lord Bird (2013)-furnish proof that African Americans have preserved their dignity and elevated their status through ingenious applications of improvisation. Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts establishes as well that a dim view of African Americans, propagated by black bondage, bears a resemblance to sexual discrimination, which prompts female targets of its gaze to practice dissembling.

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À propos de l?auteur

Roland Leander Williams is Chair and Professor of English at Temple University. He is the author of Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003 and African American Autobiography and the Quest for Freedom.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438489463
ISBN 13 
9781438489469
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
190
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1438489471 ISBN 13 :  9781438489476
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2022
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