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  1. Race and antiracism in black British and British Asian literature
    Author: Gunning, Dave
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature offers the first extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain through focussing on a selection of recent novels by black British and... more

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    Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature offers the first extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain through focussing on a selection of recent novels by black British and British Asian writers. The study argues that an understanding of how race and ethnicity function in contemporary Britain can only be gained through attention to antiracism: the politics of opposing discrimination that manifest at the level of state legislation, within local and national activism, and inside the scholarly exploration of race. It is antiracism that now most strongly conditions the emergence of racial categorisations but also of racial identities and models of behaviour. This sense of how antiracism may determine the form and content of both political debate and individual identity is traced through an examination of ten novels by black British and British Asian writers. These authors range from the well known to the critically neglected: works by Monica Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Fred D’Aguiar, Ferdinand Dennis, Hanif Kureishi, Gautam Malkani, Caryl Phillips, Mike Phillips, Zadie Smith, and Meera Syal are carefully read to explore the impacts of antiracism. These literary studies are grouped into three main themes, each of which is central to the direction of racial political identities over the last two decades in Britain: the use of the continent of Africa as a symbolic focus for black political culture; the changing forms of Muslim culture in Britain; and the emergence of a multiculturalist ethos based around the notion of ethnic communities

     
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  2. Race and antiracism in black British and British Asian literature
    Author: Gunning, Dave
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature offers the first extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain through focussing on a selection of recent novels by black British and... more

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    Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature offers the first extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain through focussing on a selection of recent novels by black British and British Asian writers. The study argues that an understanding of how race and ethnicity function in contemporary Britain can only be gained through attention to antiracism: the politics of opposing discrimination that manifest at the level of state legislation, within local and national activism, and inside the scholarly exploration of race. It is antiracism that now most strongly conditions the emergence of racial categorisations but also of racial identities and models of behaviour. This sense of how antiracism may determine the form and content of both political debate and individual identity is traced through an examination of ten novels by black British and British Asian writers. These authors range from the well known to the critically neglected: works by Monica Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Fred D’Aguiar, Ferdinand Dennis, Hanif Kureishi, Gautam Malkani, Caryl Phillips, Mike Phillips, Zadie Smith, and Meera Syal are carefully read to explore the impacts of antiracism. These literary studies are grouped into three main themes, each of which is central to the direction of racial political identities over the last two decades in Britain: the use of the continent of Africa as a symbolic focus for black political culture; the changing forms of Muslim culture in Britain; and the emergence of a multiculturalist ethos based around the notion of ethnic communities

     
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  3. Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945-1965
    cultural translations, sexual anxieties and racial fantasies
    Author: Gindt, Dirk
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Methuen Drama, London

    Introduction: cultural translations and patterns of migration -- Setting the stage: The glass menagerie -- Encounters with the other: A streetcar named desire -- Sinful sexualities and commercial triumphs: Cat on a hot tin roof -- Fantasies of the... more

     

    Introduction: cultural translations and patterns of migration -- Setting the stage: The glass menagerie -- Encounters with the other: A streetcar named desire -- Sinful sexualities and commercial triumphs: Cat on a hot tin roof -- Fantasies of the deep South: Orpheus descending -- Critical watershed: Suddenly last summer -- Epilogue.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781350178717
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    Subjects: Race in literature; Sex in literature
    Other subjects: Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983); Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983); Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983); Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983)
    Scope: xiii, 257 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis Seite: [226]-250
  4. Die Herkunft der anderen
    über Rasse, Rassismus und Literatur
    Author: Morrison, Toni
    Published: April 2018; © 2018
    Publisher:  Rowohlt e-Book, Reinbek bei Hamburg

    Die amerikanische Literaturnobelpreis-Trägerin Toni Morrison hat ihr Leben als Schriftstellerin der Rassenfrage und dem Rassismus gewidmet. Nun meldet sie sich mit klugen, schneidend klaren Worten zum Thema Rassismus in Amerika. Die sechs hier... more

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    Die amerikanische Literaturnobelpreis-Trägerin Toni Morrison hat ihr Leben als Schriftstellerin der Rassenfrage und dem Rassismus gewidmet. Nun meldet sie sich mit klugen, schneidend klaren Worten zum Thema Rassismus in Amerika. Die sechs hier abgedruckten Texte basieren auf Vorlesungen an der Harvard University im Sommer 2016. Es sind Betrachtungen über Rasse und Rassismus, die die Zerrissenheit der amerikanischen Gesellschaft widerspiegeln und durch die Wahl eines das Land spaltenden Präsidenten sowie den zunehmenden, unverbrämten Alltagsrassismus eine brennende Aktualität bekommen. Wie und wann entsteht das Konzept des Andersseins? Angeboren ist es ja nicht. Toni Morrison beantwortet diese Frage mit persönlichen Erinnerungen aus ihrer Kindheit, erzählt von eigenen Familien- und Berufserfahrungen und spricht über reale Fälle, die sie zu ihren Romanen inspiriert haben. Zudem macht sich Toni Morrison Gedanken zur Geschichte und Funktion von Literatur in einer latent rassistischen Gesellschaft. Sie leitet den literarischen Rassismus aus der Romantisierung des Sklaventums her und belegt mit Beispielen von Faulkner bis Hemingway die ständige Angst vor den schwarzen Gesichtern. Dabei schlägt sie einen weltpolitischen Bogen, von der individuellen Herkunft bis hin zur Globalisierung, zu Grenzen und Fluchtbewegungen. Eine große Autorin erhebt ihre Stimme. Ein brisantes Buch, das Mut macht und Hoffnung gibt.

     
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    Contributor: Coates, Ta-Nehisi (VerfasserIn eines Vorworts); Piltz, Thomas (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783644001831
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    Subjects: Racism in literature; African Americans in literature; Blacks in literature; Race in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (110 Seiten), EPUB, JPEG
  5. Caryl Phillips
    writing in the key of life
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Rodopi B.V, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Oxford /Peter H. Marsden -- Preamble /Caryl Phillips -- Colour Me English /Caryl Phillips -- Caryl Phillips and the Question of Political Identity: Wrestling with Prejudice /Kirpal Singh -- Conversations with Caryl Phillips:... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Oxford /Peter H. Marsden -- Preamble /Caryl Phillips -- Colour Me English /Caryl Phillips -- Caryl Phillips and the Question of Political Identity: Wrestling with Prejudice /Kirpal Singh -- Conversations with Caryl Phillips: Reflections upon an Intellectual Life /Renée Schatteman -- Plural Selves: The Dispersion of the Autobiographical Subject in the Essays of Caryl Phillips /Louise Yelin -- “Look liberty in the face”: Determinism and Free Will in Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners: Three English Lives /Bénédicte Ledent -- Hybrid Inventiveness: Caryl Phillips’s Black-Atlantic Subjectivity – The European Tribe and The Atlantic Sound /Joan Miller Powell -- Vido, Not Sir Vidia: Caryl Phillips’s Encounters with V.S. Naipaul /John Mcleod -- A New World’s Twilight: Ethics of the Caribbean Writer in Caryl Phillips’s and Derek Walcott’s Essays /Malik Ferdinand -- Caryl Phillips’s “Heartland” and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Revisiting Fear – An Intertextual Approach /Imen Najar -- Linking Legacies of Loss: Traumatic Histories and Cross-Cultural Empathy in Caryl Phillips’s Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood /Stef Craps -- Bidirectional Revision: The Connection between Past and Present in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River /Fatim Boutros -- “The cloud of ambivalence”: Exploring Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound and A New World Order /Abigail Ward -- Caryl Phillips’s Seascapes of the Imaginary /Wendy Knepper -- The Dis-ease of Multiple Identities: The Nature of Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips’s Strange Fruit /Chika Unigwe -- A New World Tribe in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore /Alessandra Di Maio -- Dorothy’s Heart of Darkness: How Europe Meets Africa in A Distant Shore /Sandra Courtman -- Negotiating Inclusion in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore /Thomas Bonnici -- Strange Encounters: Nationhood and the Stranger in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore /Petra Tournay–Theodotou -- The Civilized Pretence: Caryl Phillips and A Distant Shore /Cindy Gabrielle -- Omnipresent and Everlasting Imperialism: Race and Gender Oppression in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and A Distant Shore /Lucie Gillet -- The Dilemma of a Black Entertainer: A Contextualized Reading of Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark /Tsunehiko Kato -- The Mask and the Unheimlich in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark /Itala Vivan -- Concentric and Centripetal Narratives of Race: Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark and Percival Everett’s Erasure /Dave Gunning -- The Dynamic of Revelation and Concealment: In the Falling Snow and the Narrational Architecture of Blighted Existences /Gordon Collier -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. Writing in the Key of Life is the first critical collection devoted to the British-Caribbean author Caryl Phillips, a major voice in contemporary anglophone literatures. Phillips’s impressive body of fiction, drama, and non-fiction has garnered wide praise for its formal inventiveness and its incisive social criticism as well as its unusually sensitive understanding of the human condition. The twenty-six contributions offered here, including two by Phillips himself, address the fundamental issues that have preoccupied the writer in his now three-decades-long career – the enduring legacy of history, the intricate workings of identity, and the pervasive role of race, class, and gender in societies worldwide. Most of Phillips’s writing is covered here, in essays that approach it from various thematic and interpretative angles. These include the interplay of fact and fiction, Phillips’s sometimes ambiguous literary affiliations, his long-standing interest in the black and Jewish diasporas, his exploration of Britain and its ‘Others’, and his recurrent use of motifs such as masking and concealment. Writing in the Key of Life testifies to the vitality of Phillipsian scholarship and confirms the significance of an artist whose concerns, at once universal and topical, find particular resonance with the state of the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors: Thomas Bonnici, Fatim Boutros, Gordon Collier, Sandra Courtman, Stef Craps, Alessandra Di Maio, Malik Ferdinand, Cindy Gabrielle, Lucie Gillet, Dave Gunning, Tsunehiko Kato, Wendy Knepper, Bénédicte Ledent, John McLeod, Peter H. Marsden, Joan Miller Powell, Imen Najar, Caryl Phillips, Renée Schatteman, Kirpal Singh, Petra Tournay–Theodotou, Chika Unigwe, Itala Vivan, Abigail Ward, Louise Yelin

     
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    ISBN: 9789401207409
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    Series: Readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 146
    Subjects: Caribbean literature (English); European literature; West Indians in literature; Blacks; African diaspora in literature; Race in literature; Blacks in literature
    Other subjects: Phillips, Caryl
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 441 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  6. Narrating race
    Asia, (trans)nationalism, social change
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION: WRITING RACE AND ASIA-PACIFIC MOBILITIES – CONSTRUCTIONS AND CONTESTATIONS /Robbie B.H. Goh -- VIVAN SUNDARAM’S “AMRITA”: TOWARDS A STYLE OF THE BODY /Tania Roy -- THE RETURN OF THE SCIENTIST: ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE... more

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    Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION: WRITING RACE AND ASIA-PACIFIC MOBILITIES – CONSTRUCTIONS AND CONTESTATIONS /Robbie B.H. Goh -- VIVAN SUNDARAM’S “AMRITA”: TOWARDS A STYLE OF THE BODY /Tania Roy -- THE RETURN OF THE SCIENTIST: ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND GLOBAL TRIBALISM IN AMITAV GHOSH’S THE HUNGRY TIDE AND THE CALCUTTA CHROMOSOME /Robbie B.H. Goh -- ETHNICITY AND THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN DIASPORA IN LI-YOUNG LEE’S THE WINGED SEED /Walter S.H. Lim -- NARRATING RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN R.K. NARAYAN’S THE PAINTER OF SIGNS /Chitra Sankaran -- CHINESE ETHNICITY IN POST-REFORMATION INDONESIAN WOMEN’S FICTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO NOVELS BY AYU UTAMI AND DEWI LESTARI /Harry Aveling -- RESI(G)NIFYING THE CHINESE AND FILIPINO IN CINEMATIC NARRATIVES /Caroline S. Hau -- PERFORMING ETHNICITY, ETHNICIZING HISTORY: THE EURASIANS OF SINGAPORE IN REX SHELLEY’S THE SHRIMP PEOPLE /Lily Rose Tope -- PERFORMING THE SELF: RACE AND IDENTITY IN TWO HONG KONG ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PLAYS /Kwok-Kan Tam -- BORDER CROSSING: PLACE, IDENTITY AND DIS/LOCATION OF THE SELF IN XU XI’S THE UNWALLED CITY /Terry Siu-Han Yip -- HYBRID BROWN GAIJIN IS A “DISTINGUISHED ALIEN” IN SAKOKU JAPAN /Julie Mehta -- UGLY AMERICANS AND LITTLE BROWN BROTHERS: SPECTACLES OF IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE DRAMA /Judy Celine Ick -- DISAPPEARING RACE: NORMATIVE WHITENESS AND CULTURAL APPROPRIATION IN AUSTRALIAN REFUGEE NARRATIVES /Wenche Ommundsen -- RACE IN ASIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH: ETHNIC, NATIONAL AND COSMOPOLITAN REPRESENTATIONS /Agnes S.L. Lam -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX. The essays in this volume deal with the complexities of race in the Asia-Pacific context. Social tensions concerning race and ethnicity continue to pose profound challenges to Asia-Pacific countries in various stages of development and modernisation. Issues such as social justice, identity-formation, marginalisation and alienation, gender and related issues, are inevitably implicated in the racial cultures of Asia, and where Asian diasporic communities develop. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which race-culture is reflected in literature and cultural texts (drama and performance, visual arts, film and television). Included in this volume are essays on Amitav Ghosh, Vivan Sundaram, Li-Young Lee, R. K. Narayan, Ayu Utami, Dewi Lestari, Rex Shelley, Xu Xi, Pico Iyer and others

     
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    ISBN: 9789401207089
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    Series: Array ; 64
    Subjects: Race in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Oriental literature; Race in literature; Race relations; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 283 pages), illustrations
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    "This volume arose out of a conference entitled 'Narrating Race Between Nationalism and Globalization' hosted by the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore in Singapore in July 2006 ..."--Page [vii]

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  7. "Ces forces obscures de l'âme"
    women, race and origins in the writings of Albert Camus
    Author: Margerrison, Christine
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Early Confrontations with Others: the Écrits de jeunesse -- The Death of Woman and the Birth of Culture -- The Man-god and Death as an Act of the Will -- The Dark Continent of L’Étranger --... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Early Confrontations with Others: the Écrits de jeunesse -- The Death of Woman and the Birth of Culture -- The Man-god and Death as an Act of the Will -- The Dark Continent of L’Étranger -- Mythical women in La Peste -- Woman, Race and the Fall of Man -- Sexual topographies -- The First Man -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. This is the first major investigation of Camus’s prose fiction to explore the developing presentation of women, from the author’s earliest writings to his last, unfinished novel. Avoiding the traditional relegation of this subject to an emotional or private sphere, it traces Camus’s intellectual development in order to demonstrate the centrality of this subject to Camus’s work as a whole. If the Absurd, constructed over the body of the “real” woman, liberates the writer to follow a “true path” of literary creation, the impending loss of his Algerian homeland impells a return to “all that he had not been free to choose”, the ties of blood. These conflictual and unresolved ties are here investigated, in conjunction with the presentation of mythical female figures expressing Camus’s darkest fears, partly voiced in other writings, concerning that “other” Algeria for which he would never fight. Exploring complex interconnections between sexuality, “race” and colonialism, this volume is pertinent to all who are interested in the writings of Camus, particularly those seeking relevant new ways of approaching his work

     
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    ISBN: 9789401205696
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    Series: Faux titre ; 311
    Subjects: Women in literature; Race in literature; Race in literature; Women in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Camus, Albert (1913-1960); Camus, Albert
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (356 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-345) and index
  8. Literature and racial ambiguity
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- \'WHAT IS IN MY BLOOD?\': CONTEMPORARY BLACK SCOTTISHNESS AND THE WORK OF JACKIE KAY /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- “EVERYONE WAS VAGUELY RELATED”: HYBRIDITY AND THE POLITICS OF RACE IN SRI... more

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    Preliminary Material /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- \'WHAT IS IN MY BLOOD?\': CONTEMPORARY BLACK SCOTTISHNESS AND THE WORK OF JACKIE KAY /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- “EVERYONE WAS VAGUELY RELATED”: HYBRIDITY AND THE POLITICS OF RACE IN SRI LANKAN LITERARY DISCOURSES IN ENGLISH /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- PASSING TRANSGRESSIONS AND AUTHENTIC IDENTITY IN JESSIE FAUSET’S PLUM BUN AND NELLA LARSEN’S PASSING /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- WHITENESS AS UNSTABLE CONSTRUCTION : KATE PULLINGER’S THE LAST TIME I SAW JANE /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- BECOMING CHINESE: RACIAL AMBIGUITY IN AMY TAN’S THE JOY LUCK CLUB /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- STRATEGIC CRÉOLITÉ: CALIBAN AND MIRANDA AFTER EMPIRE /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- WHITE IDENTITY AND THE NEW ETHIC IN FAULKNER’S LIGHT IN AUGUST /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- WHITE FATHERS, BROWN DAUGHTERS: THE FRISBIE FAMILY ROMANCE AND THE AMERICAN PACIFIC /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- WRITING CULTURE AND PERFORMING RACE IN MOURNING DOVE’S COGEWEA, THE HALF-BLOOD (1927) /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- VISIBLE DIFFERENCES: VIEWING RACIAL IDENTITY IN TONI MORRISON’S PARADISE AND “RECITATIF” /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- LOOKING DIFFERENT/RE-THINKING DIFFERENCE: GLOBAL CONSTRAINTS AND/OR CONTRADICTORY CHARACTERISTICS IN YASMINE GOONERATNE’S A CHANGE OF SKIES AND ADIB KHAN’S SEASONAL ADJUSTMENTS /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- JESSIE FAUSET’S FICTION: RECONSIDERING RACE AND REVISING AESTHETICISM /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- “I MAY CREATE A MONSTER”: CHERRÍE MORAGA’S TRANSCULTURAL CONUNDRUM /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- REVISITING THE THIRD SPACE: READING DANZY SENNA’S CAUCASIA /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks -- NOTES ON THE AUTHORS /Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks.

     
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    Series: Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 27
    Subjects: Race in literature; Ambiguity in literature; Literature, Modern; Ambiguity in literature; Literature, Modern; Race in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 320 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-316)
  9. Tolkien, race and cultural history
    from fairies to Hobbits
    Author: Fimi, Dimitra
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
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    ISBN: 9780230272842; 0230272843; 9780230219519
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    RVK Categories: HN 8405
    Edition: Paperback ed.
    Subjects: Tolkien, J. R. R / (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 / Criticism and interpretation; Tolkien, J. R. R / (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 / Knowledge and learning; Literature and folklore / England / History / 20th century; Fantasy literature, English / History and criticism; Middle Earth (Imaginary place); Myth in literature; Race in literature; Culture in literature
    Scope: XVI, 240 S., Ill., 23 cm
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    Zugl.: Cardiff, Univ., Diss., 2005 u.d.T.: Fimi, Dimitra: The creative uses of scholarly knowledge in the writing of J. R. R. Tolkien
  10. Thomas Mann's world
    empire, race, and the Jewish question
    Author: Kontje, Todd Curtis
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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    ISBN: 9780472117468; 0472117467
    RVK Categories: GM 4782
    Subjects: Jews in literature; Race in literature; Literature and society
    Scope: VIII, 256 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. 235 - 249
  11. Shifting the ground
    American women writer's revisions of nature, gender, and race
    Author: Stein, Rachel
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0813917417
    RVK Categories: HU 1726 ; HU 1520
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Array; Array; Array; National characteristics, American, in literature; Criticism and interpretation; United States; Array; Gender identity in literature; Nature in literature; Race in literature
    Scope: X, 183 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. 173 - 179
  12. Sacajawea & co.
    the twentieth-century fictional American Indian woman and fellow characters ; a study of gender and race
    Author: Sundquist, Åsebrit
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Solum Forl., Oslo

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    ISBN: 8256007486
    Subjects: Array; Array; Indian women in literature; Shoshoni women; Gender identity in literature; Race in literature
    Scope: 282 S., graph. Darst.
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    Literaturverz. S. 267 - 277
  13. Strangers in Blood
    Relocating Race in the Renaissance
    Author: Feerick, Jean
    Published: [2016]; © 2010
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442686946
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    Subjects: Blood in literature; English literature; Race in literature; Social classes in literature; Blutsverwandtschaft <Motiv>; Englisch; Rassenfrage <Motiv>; Migration <Motiv>; Literatur
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  14. The complexion of race
    categories of difference in eighteenth-century British culture
    Author: Wheeler, Roxann
    Published: c2000
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia [Pa.]

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    Subjects: Geschichte; Difference (Psychology); English fiction; Race awareness; Race in literature; Rassentheorie; Ethnische Beziehungen; Englisch; Literatur
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    Biographical note: Roxann Wheeler teaches English at Ohio State University

    Main description: In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons—but neither was the statement that followed: "here, thro' Custom, (being Christians) they account themselves White Men." The Complexion of Race asks how such categories would have been possible, when and how such statements came to seem illogical, and how our understanding of the eighteenth century has been distorted by the imposition of nineteenth and twentieth century notions of race on an earlier period. Wheeler traces the emergence of skin color as a predominant marker of identity in British thought and juxtaposes the Enlightenment's scientific speculation on the biology of race with accounts in travel literature, fiction, and other documents that remain grounded in different models of human variety. As a consequence of a burgeoning empire in the second half of the eighteenth century, English writers were increasingly preoccupied with differentiating the British nation from its imperial outposts by naming traits that set off the rulers from the ruled; although race was one of these traits, it was by no means the distinguishing one. In the fiction of the time, non-European characters could still be "redeemed" by baptism or conversion and the British nation could embrace its mixed-race progeny. In Wheeler's eighteenth century we see the coexistence of two systems of racialization and to detect a moment when an older order, based on the division between Christian and heathen, gives way to a new one based on the assertion of difference between black and white
  15. Taming Cannibals
    Race and the Victorians
    Author: Brantlinger, Patrick
    Published: [2011]; © 2011
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

    In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal... more

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    In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior-an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species.Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts-including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways

     
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  16. Transatlantic Spectacles of Race
    The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse
    Author: Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    The tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman who became a casualty of the color line. The tragic muse was an equally familiar figure in Victorian British culture, an exotic and... more

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    The tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman who became a casualty of the color line. The tragic muse was an equally familiar figure in Victorian British culture, an exotic and alluring Jewish actress whose profession placed her alongside the "fallen woman." In Transatlantic Spectacles of Race, Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace. Tracing these figures through American, British, and French literature and culture, Manganelli constructs a host of surprising literary genealogies, from Zelica to Daniel Deronda, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Lady Audley's Secret. Bringing together an impressive array of cultural texts that includes novels, melodramas, travel narratives, diaries, and illustrations, Transatlantic Spectacles of Race reveals the value of transcending literary, national, and racial boundaries

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Race in literature; Racially mixed women in literature; Tragic, The, in literature; Interethnische Herkunft <Motiv>; Literatur
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  17. Borrowed Voices
    Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination
    Author: Glaser, Jennifer
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their... more

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    In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with the status quo and act as spokespeople for non-white America. In this provocative book, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Rather than simply condemning this racial ventriloquism as a form of cultural appropriation or commending it as an act of empathic imagination, Borrowed Voices offers a nuanced analysis of the technique, judiciously assessing both its limitations and its potential benefits. Glaser considers how the practice of racial ventriloquism has changed over time, examining the books of many well-known writers, including Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Saul Bellow, and many others. Bringing Jewish studies into conversation with critical race theory, Glaser also opens up a dialogue between Jewish-American literature and other forms of media, including films, magazines, and graphic novels. Moreover, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about ethnic identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement

     
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  18. Portraits of the New Negro Woman
    Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance
    Author: Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene
    Published: [2007]; © 2007
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the... more

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    Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta’s frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries. In this engaging narrative, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson uses the writings of Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset as well as the work of artists like Archibald Motley and William H. Johnson to illuminate the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of competing arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond

     
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    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; African American women in literature; African Americans; American fiction; American fiction; Femininity in literature; Harlem Renaissance; Icons in literature; Race in literature; Racially mixed people in literature; Visual perception in literature; Schwarze <Motiv>; Schwarze Frau; Literatur; Harlem renaissance; Thema; Darstellung; Frau <Motiv>; Kunst; Feminismus
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  19. Challenges of Diversity
    Essays on America
    Author: Sollors, Werner
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of... more

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    What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving understanding of ourselves as an Anglo-American nation to a multicultural one and the key role writing has played in that process. Challenges of Diversity contains stories of American myths of arrival (pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, slave ships at Jamestown, steerage passengers at Ellis Island), the powerful rhetoric of egalitarian promise in the Declaration of Independence and the heterogeneous ends to which it has been put, and the recurring tropes of multiculturalism over time (e pluribus unum, melting pot, cultural pluralism). Sollors suggests that although the transformation of this settler country into a polyethnic and self-consciously multicultural nation may appear as a story of great progress toward the fulfillment of egalitarian ideals, deepening economic inequality actually exacerbates the divisions among Americans today

     
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  20. Rewriting White
    Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
    Author: Vogel, Todd
    Published: [2004]; © 2004
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    What did it mean for people of color in nineteenth-century America to speak or write "white"? More specifically, how many and what kinds of meaning could such "white" writing carry? In ReWriting White, Todd Vogel looks at how America has racialized... more

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    What did it mean for people of color in nineteenth-century America to speak or write "white"? More specifically, how many and what kinds of meaning could such "white" writing carry? In ReWriting White, Todd Vogel looks at how America has racialized language and aesthetic achievement. To make his point, he showcases the surprisingly complex interactions between four nineteenth-century writers of color and the "standard white English" they adapted for their own moral, political, and social ends. The African American, Native American, and Chinese American writers Vogel discusses delivered their messages in a manner that simultaneously demonstrated their command of the dominant discourse of their times-using styles and addressing forums considered above their station-and fashioned a subversive meaning in the very act of that demonstration. The close readings and meticulous archival research in ReWriting White upend our conventional expectations, enrich our understanding of the dynamics of hegemony and cultural struggle, and contribute to the efforts of other cutting-edge contemporary scholars to chip away at the walls of racial segregation that have for too long defined and defaced the landscape of American literary and cultural studies

     
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  21. Abandoning the Black Hero
    Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel
    Author: Charles, John C.
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such... more

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    Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly best-selling authors Willard Motley and Frank Yerby. John C. Charles argues that these fictions have been overlooked because they deviate from two critical suppositions: that black literature is always about black life and that when it represents whiteness, it must attack white supremacy. The authors are, however, quite sympathetic in the treatment of their white protagonists, which Charles contends should be read not as a failure of racial pride but instead as a strategy for claiming creative freedom, expansive moral authority, and critical agency. In an era when "Negro writers" were expected to protest, their sympathetic treatment of white suffering grants these authors a degree of racial privacy previously unavailable to them. White writers, after all, have the privilege of racial privacy because they are never pressured to write only about white life. Charles reveals that the freedom to abandon the "Negro problem" encouraged these authors to explore a range of new genres and themes, generating a strikingly diverse body of novels that significantly revise our understanding of mid-twentieth-century black writing

     
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    Subjects: Roman; Schwarze; Schriftsteller; Weiße / Motiv; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; African Americans; American fiction; American fiction; American fiction; Race in literature; Whites in literature; Schriftsteller; Weiße <Motiv>; Schwarze; Roman
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  22. The Bounds of Race
    Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance
    Contributor: LaCapra, Dominick (Publisher)
    Published: [2018]; © 1992
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    The concept of race is central to one of the most powerful ideological formations in history, Dominick LaCapra argues in his introduction to this volume, and understanding the effects of that ideology and its intricate relations with issues of class... more

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    The concept of race is central to one of the most powerful ideological formations in history, Dominick LaCapra argues in his introduction to this volume, and understanding the effects of that ideology and its intricate relations with issues of class and gender is one of the most pressing challenges to contemporary modes of thought. The eleven essays comprising The Bounds of Race confront this challenge with insight, rigor, and imagination.The authors take on questions of language, genre, and politics with reference to African-American, Anglo-American, African, South African, Francophone North African, British, and Afro-Hispanic texts. Individual chapters discuss writings from an array of genres including homily, autobiography, the novel, children's literature, and political and scientific discourse. Taken together, the essays argue persuasively that the existing canon must be expanded, that the protocols of interpretation must be transformed to make a prominent place for such issues as race, and that the problem of interpretation cannot be posed in the absence of theoretically informed modes of historical investigation.The Bounds of Race provides a subtle analysis of the variable role of racial ideologies and traces the interplay between hegemonic constraints and the strategies of resistance to them

     
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  23. Unbecoming Americans
    Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960
    Author: Keith, Joseph
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing... more

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    During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African American writers—C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright—Joseph Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms "alienage," as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of the "American Century." Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; American literature; American literature; Citizenship in literature; Immigrants' writings, American; Race in literature; Staatsbürgschaft; Ethnizität <Motiv>; Minderheit; Literatur
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  24. Racial Asymmetries
    Asian American Fictional Worlds
    Author: Sohn, Stephen Hong
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts. Racial Asymmetries... more

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    Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts. Racial Asymmetries specifically examines the importance of first person narration in Asian American fiction published in the postrace era, focusing on those cultural productions in which the author’s ethnoracial makeup does not directly overlap with that of the storytelling perspective.Through rigorous analysis of novels and short fiction, such as Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex, Sabina Murray’s A Carnivore’s Inquiry and Sigrid Nunez’s The Last of Her Kind, Sohn reveals how the construction of narrative perspective allows the Asian American writer a flexible aesthetic canvas upon which to engage issues of oppression and inequity, power and subjectivity, and the complicated construction of racial identity. Speaking to concerns running through postcolonial studies and American literature at large, Racial Asymmetries employs an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the unbounded nature of fictional worlds

     
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  25. Becoming Christian
    Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance
    Author: Britton, Dennis Austin
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology... more

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    Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire religious identities.Whereas Catholicism had asserted that Christian identity begins with baptism, numerous theologians in the Church of England denied the necessity of baptism and instead treated Christian identity as a racial characteristic passed from parents to their children. The church thereby developed a theology that both transformed a nation into a Christian race and created skepticism about the possibility of conversion. Race became a matter of salvation and damnation.Britton intervenes in critical debates about the intersections of race and religion, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance. Examining English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harrington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger, Becoming Christian demonstrates how a theology of race altered a nation’s imagination and literary landscape

     
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    Subjects: Baptism; Church of England; Edmund Spenser; English literature; Jews; Muslims; Race; Romance; William Shakespeare; conversion; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Christians in literature; Conversion in literature; Conversion; English literature; Jews in literature; Muslims in literature; Race in literature; Religion and literature; Religion and literature
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