The social imperative : race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moya, Paula M. L. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. American fiction > Social aspects. Race in literature.

Table of 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 Muñoz's "Zigzagger"
Dismantling the master's house : the search for decolonial love in Junot Díaz'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.