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Title The social imperative : race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism / Paula M.L. Moya.
Author Moya, Paula M. L., author.
Publisher Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 9  English XA374.R23 MOY  

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Description xiii, 206 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN 9780804795708 hardback : alkaline paper
9780804797023 paperback : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-197) and index.
Contents Introduction : schemas and racial literacy -- Racism is not intellectual : the dialogic potential of multicultural literature -- Not one and the same thing : the ethical relationship of selves to others in Toni Morrison's Sula -- Another way to be : vestigial schemas in Helena Maria Viramontes's "The moths" and Manuel Mun⁺ёoz's "Zigzagger" -- Dismantling the master's house : the search for decolonial love in Junot Di⁺ѓaz's "How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie" -- The misprision of mercy : race and responsible reading in Toni Morrison's A mercy -- Conclusion : reading race.
Library Class English XA374.R23
Subject American fiction -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Social aspects.
Race in literature.
Alt Title Race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism

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