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Critical Race Narratives

A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury

By: Carl Gutierrez-Jones

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Critical Race Narratives

A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury

By: Carl Gutierrez-Jones

The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial strife in the United States as a highly-charged struggle over different methods of reading and writing. Focusing in particular on the practice and theorization of narrative strategies, Gutiérrez-Jones engages many of the most influential texts in the recent race debatesincluding The Bell Curve, America in Black and White, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, and The Mismeasure of Man. In the process, Critical Race Narratives pursues key questions posed by the texts as they work within, or against, disciplinary expectations: can critical engagements with narrative enable a more democratic dialogue regarding race? what promise does such experimentation hold for working through the traumatic legacy of racism in the United States? Throughout, Critical Race Narratives initiates a timely dialogue between race-focused narrative experiment in scholarly writing and similar work in literary texts and popular culture.

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NYU Press

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0814731449

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Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction

By: Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

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Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction

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Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction examines the fascination with suicidal crises evident in a range of science fiction. Specifically, this study explores a seemingly counterintuitive proposition: in moments of dramatic scientific and technological change, the authors of these works frequently cast self-destructive episodes as catalysts for beneficial change. Carlos Gutierrez-Jones argues that this creative self-destruction mechanism is invoked by H. G. Wells as a means of negotiating Victorian anxieties regarding evolutionary theory, by Stanislaw Lem as he wrestles with the prospect of nuclear self-destruction at the dawn of the space age, by William Gibson as he considers the development of artificial intelligence, by Christopher Nolan as he explores the cybernetic colonization of the unconscious, by Rian Johnson as he links aspects of video gaming to the neoliberal militarization of institutions, and by Margaret Atwood as she considers impending ecological disaster and the rise of bioterrorism. These authors often depict such scientific and technological changes in a fashion that requires the central characters to transform themselves in hopes of remaining relevant in a radically altered environment.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107100402

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By: Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

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Rethinking the Borderlands

Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse

By: Carl Scott Gutiérrez-Jones

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Rethinking the Borderlands

Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse

By: Carl Scott Gutiérrez-Jones

This is a rich and innovative synthesis of a broad range of theoretical perspectives. It elevates academic discussions of Chicano literature and cultural production to new levels of sophistication."--George Lipsitz, author of "Time Passages" "One of the most important works in Chicano cultural criticism to have been written in the last twenty years. Its critique of American legal discourse is rigorous, piquant, and dazzling in its elegance."--Ramon Gutierrez, author of "When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away" "Offers a new perspective on Chicano cultural practices by bringing together for the first time critical legal studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies. His work is sure to draw a whole new readership to the field of Chicano and Chicana studies. Scholars will find this a wonderfully profitable book."--Ramon Saldivar, Stanford University

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0520085787

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9780520085787

Critical Race Narratives

A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury

By: Carl Gutierrez-Jones

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A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury

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0814732747

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Critical Race Narratives

Critical Race Narratives

Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction

Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction

Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction

Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction

Rethinking the Borderlands

Rethinking the Borderlands

Critical Race Narratives

Critical Race Narratives

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