-- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I -- New-Critical Subjects: From Prosody to Identity -- 1 -- Prosodists and Postpositivists -- 2 -- Prosodists and Racialists -- 3 -- Ontology and Objectivity -- 4 -- Race and Realism -- 5 -- Resistance and Submission -- PART II -- "Youre One of Them, Ion": Aesthetic Rhapsody and Racial Identity -- 6 -- Aesthetics and Perception -- 7 -- Race and Peoplehood -- 8 -- Archaeology and Rhapsody -- 9 -- Race and Rhapsody -- 10 -- Analysis and Aesthetics -- 11 -- Aesthetics and Identity -- 12 -- Colors and Lines -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary
Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity aims to explain and to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which literary criticism has come to organize its attention to literary texts around this primary object of analysis, the "racial" body
