Absorption Narratives
Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas
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2025
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2771-6 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2771-6 (ISBN)
Absorption Narratives examines how Jewishness intersects with Blackness and Indigeneity across geographical contexts from North, Central, and South America.
In Absorption Narratives, Stephanie M. Pridgeon explores cultural depictions of Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity within a comparative, inter-American framework. The dynamics of Jewishness interacting with other racial categories differ significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean compared with those in the United States and Canada, largely due to long-standing and often disputed concepts of mestizaje, broadly defined as racial mixture. As a result, a comprehensive understanding of Jewishness and the construction of racial identities requires an exploration of how Jewishness intersects with both Blackness and Indigeneity in the Americas.
Absorption Narratives charts the ways in which literary works capture differences and similarities among Black, Jewish, and Indigenous experiences. Through an extensive and diverse examination of fiction, Pridgeon navigates the complex connections of these identity categories, offering a comparative perspective on race and ethnicity across the Americas that destabilizes US-centric critical practices. Revealing the limitations of US-focused models in understanding racial alterity in relation to Jewishness, Absorption Narratives emphasizes the importance of viewing the narrative of race relations in the Americas from a hemispheric standpoint.
In Absorption Narratives, Stephanie M. Pridgeon explores cultural depictions of Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity within a comparative, inter-American framework. The dynamics of Jewishness interacting with other racial categories differ significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean compared with those in the United States and Canada, largely due to long-standing and often disputed concepts of mestizaje, broadly defined as racial mixture. As a result, a comprehensive understanding of Jewishness and the construction of racial identities requires an exploration of how Jewishness intersects with both Blackness and Indigeneity in the Americas.
Absorption Narratives charts the ways in which literary works capture differences and similarities among Black, Jewish, and Indigenous experiences. Through an extensive and diverse examination of fiction, Pridgeon navigates the complex connections of these identity categories, offering a comparative perspective on race and ethnicity across the Americas that destabilizes US-centric critical practices. Revealing the limitations of US-focused models in understanding racial alterity in relation to Jewishness, Absorption Narratives emphasizes the importance of viewing the narrative of race relations in the Americas from a hemispheric standpoint.
Stephanie M. Pridgeon is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at Bates College.
Acknowledgments
1. Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas
2. "There’s No Jews on the Reservation": Jewish-Indigenous Encounters in Fiction of the Americas
3. "What Is It We Absorb?": Fictional Genealogies of Hybridity between Jewishness and Indigeneity
4. Accidents of Racism: Passing and Absorbing Blackness into Jewishness
5. Creole Dreams: Blackness and Jewishness in Urban Spaces throughout the Americas
6. Queering Ethnic Rites of Passage
7. Epilogue: Can Fiction Unite the Ununitable?
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.03.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-2771-3 / 1487527713 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-2771-6 / 9781487527716 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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