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Jack London's Racial Lives - A Critical Biography (Hardcover)
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Jack London's Racial Lives - A Critical Biography (Hardcover)
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This title presents the first thorough examination of race in
London's life and writing.Jack London (1876-1916), known for his
naturalistic and mythic tales, remains among the most popular and
influential American writers in the world. Jack London's ""Racial
Lives"" offers the first full study of the enormously important
issue of race in London's life and diverse works, whether set in
the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during the
Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight bouts, or
the Mexican Revolution. Reesman explores his choices of genre by
analyzing racial content and purpose and judges his literary
artistry against a standard of racial tolerance. Although he
promoted white superiority in novels and nonfiction, London sharply
satirized racism and meaningfully portrayed racial others - most
often as protagonists - in his short fiction.Why the disparity? For
London, racial and class identity were intertwined: his formation
as an artist began with the mixed 'heritage' of his family. His
mother taught him racism, but he learned something different from
his African American foster mother, Virginia Prentiss. Childhood
poverty, shifting racial allegiances, and a 'psychology of want'
helped construct the many 'houses' of race and identity he
imagined. Reesman also examines London's socialism, his study of
Darwin and Jung, and the illnesses he suffered in the South
Seas.With new readings of ""The Call of the Wild and Martin Eden"",
and many other works, such as the explosive Pacific stories,
Reesman reveals that London employed many of the same literary
tropes of race used by African American writers of his period: the
slave narrative, double-consciousness, the tragic mulatto, and
ethnic diaspora. Hawaii seemed to inspire his most memorable
visions of a common humanity.
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