{"product_id":"genre-and-white-supremacy-in-the-postemancipation-united-states-9780198838098","title":"Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States","description":"How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly asymptomatic? Challenging the prevailing literary critical inclination toward what makes texts exceptional or distinctive, \u003cem\u003eGenre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States\u003c\/em\u003e underscores the urgent importance of genre for tracking conventionality as it enters into, constitutes, and reproduces ordinary life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the wake of emancipation's failed promise, two developments unfolded: white supremacy amassed new mechanisms and procedures for reproducing racial hierarchy; and black freedom developed new practices for collective expression and experimentation. This new racial ordinary came into being through new literary and cultural genres--including campus novels, the \u003cem\u003eLadies' Home Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, Civil War elegies, and gospel sermons. Through the postemancipation interplay between aesthetic conventions and social norms, genre became a major influence in how Americans understood their social and political affiliations, their citizenship, and their race. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTravis M. Foster traces this thick history through four decades following the Civil War, equipping us to understand ordinary practices of resistance more fully and to resist ordinary procedures of subjugation more effectively. In the process, he provides a model for how the study of popular genre can reinvigorate our methods for historicizing the everyday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Travis M. Foster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198838098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTravis M. Foster, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor, Villanova University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTravis M. Foster is an Associate Professor of English and the Academic Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Villanova University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40865325219955,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":143.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0ede925b-9fdc-4aeb-b4b2-de45795027dc.jpg?v=1687871686","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/genre-and-white-supremacy-in-the-postemancipation-united-states-9780198838098","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}