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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Power Relations in Black Lives : Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias (Edition 1)
- Auflage
- 1
- Ort / Verlag
- Bielefeld: transcript Verlag
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- UTB Scholars
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin,
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 3839436605, 9783839436608, 9783837636604, 3837636607DOI: 10.14361/9783839436608Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC6695144
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- African American Literature, African Americans-History and criticism-Music, African Americans-Politics and government, America, American literature in English, American literature-African American authors, American Studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Black Culture, Book Industry Communication, Capital, Cultural Sociology, Cultural Studies, Established-Outsider Relationships, Field, Habitus, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Norbert Elias, Pierre Bourdieu, Political Activism, Power Asymmetries, Power Imbalances, Power Relations, Racism, Racism in literature, Rap Music, Relational Sociology, Social Relations, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Literature, Subjects & Themes, Symbolic Violence, thema EDItEUR