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Author:

Jerng, Mark C., author.

Title:

Racial worldmaking : the power of popular fiction / Mark C. Jerng.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

vii, 284 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.
Racism in literature.
Asians in literature.
Blacks in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Race discrimination--United States.
Literature and society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Racial Worldmaking -- Part I. Yellow Peril Genres 1. Worlds of Color 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization -- Part II. Plantation Romance 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception -- Part III. Sword and Sorcery 5. The "Facts" of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism -- Part IV. Alternate History 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation 8. Alternate Histories of World War II; or, How the Race Concept Organizes the World -- Conclusion: On the Possibilities of an Antiracist Racial Worldmaking.

Summary:

"Examines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law" -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0823277755
9780823277759
0823277763
9780823277766

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1008774198

LCCN:

2017022689

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)