Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination - Softcover
Ideas of blackness and racial difference have deep roots in European culture, stretching further back than the slave trade and 19th-century imperialism. This text exposes this history through an archaelogy of the racial imagination, exploring the work of both black and white artists and writers.
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"Lively's writing is smart but accessible. He wears his scholarship gracefully and writes (thank God) like a novelist, not an academic....Masks provides an elegant overview of how Western society constructed 'blackness' over hundreds of years. I don't know of any work that covers the map from orientalism to racist imperialism so efficiently. This is quite a fresh, even startling book."--Diane Roberts, author of Faulkner and Southern Womanhood and The Myth of Aunt Jemima
"For readers in the United States who, on a consensual level, never identify themselves as being racists or living in a racist society, Lively's book is a much needed antidote. It offers valuable insights into the specific meanings of black experience."--Charles Long, author of Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion
"Erudite, but not over-academic, Masks is a brilliant survey of how 'blackness' figures in the novel."--Esquire
"A sophisticated survey of the culture of race... this book lucidly covers important cultural territory."--Sunday Times (London)
"An epic of the evolution of racial consciousness and identity in both history and canonical literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries."--Sherri Barnes, Library Journal
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Adam Lively is a well-known critic, novelist, and broadcaster. He was born in Swansea and studied history and philosophy in England and America. He is the author of four novels, Blue Fruit, The Burnt House, The Snail, and Sing the Body Electric, as well as a pamphlet, Parliament: The Great British Democracy Swindle. Mr. Lively lives in London.
"Lively's writing is smart but accessible. He wears his scholarship gracefully and writes (thank God) like a novelist, not an academic....Masks provides an elegant overview of how Western society constructed 'blackness' over hundreds of years. I don't know of any work that covers the map from orientalism to racist imperialism so efficiently. This is quite a fresh, even startling book."--Diane Roberts, author of Faulkner and Southern Womanhood and The Myth of Aunt Jemima
"For readers in the United States who, on a consensual level, never identify themselves as being racists or living in a racist society, Lively's book is a much needed antidote. It offers valuable insights into the specific meanings of black experience."--Charles Long, author of Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion
"Erudite, but not over-academic, Masks is a brilliant survey of how 'blackness' figures in the novel."--Esquire
"A sophisticated survey of the culture of race... this book lucidly covers important cultural territory."--Sunday Times (London)
"An epic of the evolution of racial consciousness and identity in both history and canonical literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries."--Sherri Barnes, Library Journal
Adam Lively is a well-known critic, novelist, and broadcaster. He was born in Swansea and studied history and philosophy in England and America. He is the author of four novels, Blue Fruit, The Burnt House, The Snail, and Sing the Body Electric, as well as a pamphlet, Parliament: The Great British Democracy Swindle. Mr. Lively lives in London.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0099485516
- ISBN 13 9780099485513
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages295
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