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According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root
of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic
struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume
highlights the role of power relations in the African American
experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert
Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new
readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical
and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson
Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness,
and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard
Rustin,
Transatlantic Negotiations was the theme of the 52. annual
convention of the German Association for American Studies, held in
Frankfurt in 2005. Each contribution to this volume illuminates
explicitly or implicitly the intricacies of negotiations embedded
in different relationships of power as they reverberate through
history. Together they present a wide range of forms of interaction
between Europe, Africa, and America, from fruitful exchange to
contemptuous or thoughtless discrimination. The collection thus
points to a salient feature of transatlantic relations, namely the
simultaneity of mutual enriching forms of negotiation, marked by
reciprocity, with drastic forms of inequality in which the
negotiating power is almost entirely one-sided.
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