Title Abolishing White masculinity from Mark Twain to hiphop : crises in whiteness / Stephany Rose

Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 191 pages) Contents Introduction: Writing whiteness: white authors and hegemonic white masculinity -- 2000 and late?: passé conversations on race for a post-racial nation -- The shame is ours, not theirs: Mark Twain's battle with racialism -- Invented li(v)es: gradations of whiteness in F. Scott Fitzgerald's tribal twenties -- Dispossessing race: abolishing whiteness in Adam Mansbach's angry white boys -- Conclusion: Dreaming of post-racism in a racial wonderland Summary Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop, a groundbreaking text in critical whiteness studies and literary criticism, looks toward white American male literature explicitly for racialized social commentary on the construction of whiteness, as an identity and power source. Works of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Adam Mansbach are probed for inward projections of imaginative fissures concerning the construction of white masculinity as ultimate representations of white identity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index Notes English Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject American literature -- History and criticism. White people in literature. Masculinity in literature. White people -- Race identity -- United States LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Masculinity in literature White people in literature White people -- Race identity United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021675814 ISBN 9780739181232 0739181238 9780739181232 1306548179 9781306548175

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