Postmodern Literature and Race

With essays on a range of contemporary writers, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.

Len Platt (Edited by), Sara Upstone (Edited by)

9781107042483, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 February 2015

314 pages

23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm, 0.59 kg

Postmodernism Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide r]