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Author:

Jenkins, Candice Marie, 1974- author.

Title:

Black bourgeois : class and sex in the flesh / Candice M. Jenkins.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiii, 265 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

1900-2099
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Class consciousness in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Human body in literature.
African Americans in literature.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Class consciousness in literature.
Human body in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The Black and bourgeois dilemma -- New bourgeoisie, old bodies: performing post-Civil Rights Black privilege in Tar Baby and School Daze -- "Half of everything and certain of nothing": cultural mulattoes and racial property in Black, White, and Jewish and Caucasia -- Mapping class: He Sleeps, Black Girl in Paris, and the gendered geography of Black labor -- Interiority, anteriority, and the art of Blackness: erasure and the post-racial future -- Flesh, agency, possibility: social death and the limits of progress in John Henry Days and Man Gone Down -- Conclusion: Black and bourgeois in the #blacklivesmatter era.

Summary:

"Bourgeois in the Flesh examines how late 20th and early 21st century African American literary texts grapple with the dilemma of black bourgeois subjectivity"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

151790580X
9781517905804
1517905796
9781517905798

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1080250954

LCCN:

2018055521

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)