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How Whiteness Claimed the Future


How Whiteness Claimed the Future

The Always New vs The Always Now in US-American Literature
ISSN, Band 7 1. Aufl.

von: Mariya Nikolova

89,95 €

Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 20.03.2023
ISBN/EAN: 9783110891331
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 183

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<p> Interested in the ideological workings of fiction, I study how major avant-garde tropes promote the potential of permanent renewal as white America’s property. Renewal ties to the capacities to create, progress, transcend, and simply be. From Black critique we know that, within dominant discourse, all these capacities have been denied to Black bodies ever since colonization. Black work has been fetishized, appropriated, stolen, and dismissed in and by dominant culture, while Black being is construed as negativity and barred on the level of ontology. It follows then that racialization operates on multiple levels in the conceptual frame of renewal. I study this conceptualization by re-reading the works of and criticism on progressive white authors. I examine how images of renewal enable the claim on futurity, transformative potential, and movement forward as exclusively white properties. Premised on oppositions between positive capacities and a state of complete incapacitation, these images are often viewed as separate constructions. This project shows that, deriving from white ideology, such representations are symbiotic and simultaneous - the "good" story of white renewal rests on the continual transgression towards Black being. </p>
<strong>Mariya Nikolova</strong>, University of Potsdam, Germany

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