116 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
116 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Reading the Racial Encounter engages constructions of race through the analysis of scenes of meeting or encounter in three multimedia texts. Such scenes are rarely, if ever, subject to book-length analysis, yet such a project can arguably allow race to be understood in new and challenging ways.
This book’s focus is on three texts that offer particularly nuanced and reflexive engagements with... Read more
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction: reading the racial encounter
Chapter 2. ‘Oscillation of influence’: Encounter and supplement in ‘Mirror Mirror’ and The Romani Cultural & Arts Company Mission Statement
Chapter 3. Super Confrontation: ‘Psychic Theatre’ and ‘anonymous genius’ in I’m A Virgo
Chapter 4. Succession’s succession: aphorism and structural racism and America
Index
Biography
Neil Cocks is an associate professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK. He has published on a wide range of subjects, including: Children’s Literature; Film Studies; The Gothic; Critical University Studies; Queer Theory.
