The racial imaginary : writers on race in the life of the mind

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Label

The racial imaginary : writers on race in the life of the mind

Title remainder

writers on race in the life of the mind

Statement of responsibility

eds. Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap

Contributor

• Loffreda, Beth
• Cap, Max King
• Cap, Max King
• Rankine, Claudia, 1963-
• Loffreda, Beth
• Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

Editor

• Cap, Max King
• Cap, Max King
• Loffreda, Beth
• Loffreda, Beth
• Rankine, Claudia, 1963-
• Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

Subject

• African Americans in literature
• African Americans in literature
• African Americans in literature
• American literature -- African American authors
• American literature -- African American authors
• American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
• Identity politics
• Identity politics
• Identity politics
• Poetics
• Poetics
• Poetics
• Poetry -- Black authors
• Poetry -- Black authors
• Poetry -- Black authors | History and criticism
• Race in literature
• Race in literature
• Race in literature
• Race relations in literature
• Race relations in literature
• Race relations in literature

Language

eng

Summary

"To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial--a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one. "It is not only white writers who make a prize of transcendence, of course. Many writers of all backgrounds see the imagination as a historical, as a generative place where race doesn't and shouldn't enter, a place of bodies that transcend the legislative, the economic--in other words, transcend the stuff that doesn't lend itself much poetry. In this view the imagination is postracial, a posthistorical and postpolitical utopia. . . . To bring up race for these writers is to inch close to the anxious space of affirmative action, the scarring qualifieds. "So everyone is here."--Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda, from the introduction In 2011, a poem published in a national magazine by a popular white male poet made use of a black female body. A conversation ensued, and ended. Claudia Rankine subsequently created Open Letter, a web forum for writers to relate the effects and affects of racial difference and to explore art's failure, thus far, to adequately imagine"--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

TOH

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS228.R32

LC item number

R33 2015

Literary form

non fiction