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In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of
composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show
that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive
but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the
effects of racism on contemporary literacy practices and the
rhetoric by which white privilege maintains and reproduces itself,
Ryden and Marshall consider topics ranging from the emotional
investment in whiteness to the role of personal narrative in
reconstituting racist identities to critiques of the foundational
premises of writing programs steeped in repudiation of despised
discourses. Marshall and Ryden alternate chapters to sustain a
multi-layered dialogue that traces the rhetorical complexities and
contradictions of teaching English and writing in a university
setting. Their lived experiences as faculty and administrators
serve to underscore the complex code of whiteness even as they push
to decode it and demonstrate how their own pedagogical practices
are raced and racialized in multiple ways. Collectively, the essays
ask instructors and administrators to consider more carefully the
pernicious nature of whiteness in their professional activities and
how it informs our practices.
In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of
composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show
that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive
but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the
effects of racism on contemporary literacy practices and the
rhetoric by which white privilege maintains and reproduces itself,
Ryden and Marshall consider topics ranging from the emotional
investment in whiteness to the role of personal narrative in
reconstituting racist identities to critiques of the foundational
premises of writing programs steeped in repudiation of despised
discourses. Marshall and Ryden alternate chapters to sustain a
multi-layered dialogue that traces the rhetorical complexities and
contradictions of teaching English and writing in a university
setting. Their lived experiences as faculty and administrators
serve to underscore the complex code of whiteness even as they push
to decode it and demonstrate how their own pedagogical practices
are raced and racialized in multiple ways. Collectively, the essays
ask instructors and administrators to consider more carefully the
pernicious nature of whiteness in their professional activities and
how it informs our practices.
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes
paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in
American literature to highlight their shared qualities Following
the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century,
the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having
taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However,
Haunting Realities explores the period of American Realism—the
end of the nineteenth century—to discover evidence of fertile
ground for another age of Gothic proliferation. At first
glance, “Naturalist Gothic” seems to be a contradiction in
terms. While the Gothic is known for its sensational effects, with
its emphasis on horror and the supernatural, the doctrines of late
nineteenth-century Naturalism attempted to move away from the
aesthetics of sentimentality and stressed sobering, mechanistic
views of reality steeped in scientific thought and the determinism
of market values and biology. Nonetheless, what binds Gothicism and
Naturalism together is a vision of shared pessimism and the
perception of a fearful, lingering presence that ominously haunts
an impending modernity. Indeed, it seems that in many Naturalist
works reality is so horrific that it can only be depicted through
Gothic tropes that prefigure the alienation and despair of
modernism. In recent years, research on the Gothic has
flourished, yet there has been no extensive study of the links
between the Gothic and Naturalism, particularly those which stem
from the early American Realist tradition. Haunting Realities is a
timely volume that addresses this gap and is an important addition
to scholarly work on both the Gothic and Naturalism in the American
literary tradition.
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