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  • Whiteness, otherness, and the individualism paradox from Huck to Punk[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 810.9/353
    書名/作者: Whiteness, otherness, and the individualism paradox from Huck to Punk/ by Daniel S. Traber.
    作者: Traber, Daniel S.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
    面頁冊數: 205 p.
    標題: American literature - History and criticism.
    標題: Individualism in literature.
    標題: Individuality in literature.
    標題: Liberty in literature.
    標題: Conformity in literature.
    標題: Dissenters in literature.
    標題: Marginality, Social, in literature.
    標題: Whites in literature.
    標題: Whites - Race identity - United States.
    ISBN: 9780230603578
    ISBN: 0230603572
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-199) and index.
    內容註: "They're After Us!": Criminality and Hegemony in Huckleberry Finn --Stephen Crane and Maggie's White Other -- One of None: Quasi-Hybridityin The Sun Also Rises -- Back to the Future: Suttree (and The Pioneers) -- L.A. Punk's Sub-Urbanism -- Repo Man, Ambivalence, and the GenericMediation -- Whither Agency?
    摘要、提要註: Traber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant culture. He draws oncritical theory, whiteness and cultural studies to counter an eager correlation between marginality and agency. The nonconformist cultural politics of these border crossings implode since the transgressive identity the protagonists desire relies upon, is built from, the center's values and definitions. An orthodox notion of individualism underpins eachact of sovereignty as it rationalizes exploiting stereotypes of an Other constructed by the center. The work closes by positing atheory of identity based on Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of the emptied self. In recognizing the alreadymixed quality of being, identity is made a vacuous concept as the standards for determining self anddifference become too slippery to hold.
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