Bibliograph

After Canaan, Essays on Race, Writing, and Region, Wayde Compton

Type

Label

After Canaan, Essays on Race, Writing, and Region, Wayde Compton

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

After Canaan

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

731974482

Responsibility statement

Wayde Compton

Sub title

Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

Summary

These varied essays explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a. "passing"), the subjectivity of black writers in the unblack Pacific northwest, the failure of urban renewal, black and Asian comedy as a counterweight to official multiculturalism, the poetics of hip hop turntablism, and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Pheneticizing Versus Passing; Blackvoice and Stately Ways; Seven Routes to Hogan's Alley and Vancouver's Black Community; The Repossession of Fred Booker; Alexis Mazurin, the Hot Sauce Posse, and Black History Month on the Edge; Turntable Poetry, Mixed-Race, and Schizophonophilia; Obama and Language; Works Cited; Index; Wayde Compton;

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