Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race

by Sue J. Kim, Ronald Angelo Johnson, Claire M. Renzetti, et al.

Book Overview

Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the political and economic structures that shape issues of race in literary studies. Kim s revelatory book shows how reading authors through their identity ends up neglecting both complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023061874X
• ISBN13: 9780230618749
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"