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Author Moya, Paula M. L., author.

Title The social imperative : race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism / Paula M.L. Moya.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.009355 M873s 2016    ---  Available
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Description xiii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-197) and index.
Contents Introduction : schemas and racial literacy -- Racism is not intellectual : the dialogic potential of multicultural literature -- Not one and the same thing : the ethical relationship of selves to others in Toni Morrison's Sula -- Another way to be : vestigial schemas in Helena María Viramontes's "The moths" and Mañuel Muñoz's "Zigzagger" -- Dismantling the master's house : the search for decolonial love in Junot Díaz's "How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie" -- The misprision of mercy : race and responsible reading in Toni Morrison's A mercy -- Conclusion : reading race.
Subject American fiction -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Social aspects.
Race in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
ISBN 9780804795708 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804795703 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804797023 (paperback ; alk. paper)
0804797021 (paperback ; alk. paper)
Standard No. 40025574590

 
    
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