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Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race

Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel

By: Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus

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Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race

Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel

By: Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus

Winner of the SAMLA Studies Award Honorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of U.S. race relations, the African American novel provided a powerful counternarrative to dominant and pejorative ideas about blackness. In Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race, Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus uncovers how black and white writers experimented with innovative narrative strategies to revise static and stereotypical views of black identity and experience. In this provocative and challenging book, Daniels-Rauterkus contests the long-standing idea that African Americans did not write literary realism, along with the inverse misconception that white writers did not make important contributions to African American literature. Taking up key works by Charles W. Chesnutt, Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain, Daniels-Rauterkus argues that authors blended realism with romance, often merging mimetic and melodramatic conventions to advocate on behalf of African Americans, challenge popular theories of racial identity, disrupt the expectations of the literary marketplace, and widen the possibilities for black representation in fiction. Combining literary history with close textual analysis, Daniels-Rauterkus reads black and white writers alongside each other to demonstrate the reciprocal nature of literary production. Moving beyond discourses of racial authenticity and cultural property, Daniels-Rauterkus stresses the need to organize African American literature around black writers and their meditations on blackness, but she also proposes leaving space for nonblack writers whose use of comparable narrative strategies can facilitate reconsiderations of the complex social order that constitutes race in America. With Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race, Daniels-Rauterkus expands critical understandings of American literary realism and African American literature by destabilizing the rigid binaries that too often define discussions of race, genre, and periodization.

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252

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LSU Press

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080717341X

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9780807173411

Nutrition Across Life Stages

By: Melissa Bernstein,Kimberley McMahon

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Nutrition Across Life Stages

By: Melissa Bernstein,Kimberley McMahon

Good nutrition is a critical component at every stage of life. Nutrition Across Life Stages, Second Edition covers topics applicable and relevant for entry-level Nutrition and Dietetics students who are focusing their study on nutritional requirements and challenges during each life stage. The text clearly and comprehensively presents the impact of nutrition on people across the life cycle, moving through each life stage by first highlighting normal nutritional needs before delving into the implications of nutrition for health and disease at each particular stage of life. Each new print copy includes 365-day Navigate eBook access. Instructor resources include test bank, slides in PowerPoint format, image bank, and instructor's manual with learning objectives, chapter outlines, answers to in-text questions, and more.

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634

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284252086

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9781284252088

Citizen Journalism

Practices, Propaganda, Pedagogy

By: Melissa Wall

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Citizen Journalism

Practices, Propaganda, Pedagogy

By: Melissa Wall

Citizen Journalism explores citizen participation in the news as an evolving disruptive practice in digital journalism. This volume moves beyond the debates over the mainstream news media attempts to control and contain citizen journalism to focus attention in a different direction: the peripheries of traditional journalism. Here, more independent forms of citizen journalism, enabled by social media, are creating their own forms of news. Among the actors at the boundaries of the professional journalism field the book identifies are the engaged citizen journalist and the enraged citizen journalist. The former consists of under-represented voices leading social justice movements, while the latter reflects the views of conservatives and the alt-right, who often view citizen journalism as a performance. Citizen Journalism further explores how non-journalism arenas, such as citizen science, enable ordinary citizens to collect data and become protectors of the environment. Citizen Journalism serves as an important reminder of the professional field’s failure to effectively respond to the changing nature of public communication. These changes have helped to create new spaces for new actors; in such places, traditional as well as upstart forms of journalism negotiate and compete, ultimately aiding the journalism field in creating its future.

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Routledge

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1351055682

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9781351055680

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Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race

Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race

Nutrition Across Life Stages

Nutrition Across Life Stages

Citizen Journalism

Citizen Journalism

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