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The social imperative :

Moya, Paula M. L.,

The social imperative : race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism / Paula M.L. Moya. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Mu�noz's "Zigzagger" -- Dismantling the master's house : the search for decolonial love in Junot D�iaz'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.

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American fiction--History and criticism.
American fiction--Social aspects.
Race in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American fiction.
Race in literature.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PS374.R32 / M69 2015eb

813.009/355