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