A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Literature and Racism
General
Bringas López, Ana María. "'Di Colour a Yuh Skin a di Colour a Yuh Mind': Color/raza y clase social en la literatura jamaicana." Proceedings of the XIXth International Conference of AEDEAN. Ed. Javier Pérez Guerra et al. Vigo: Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemana da Universidade de Vigo, 1996. 169-74.*
Derrida, Jacques. "Racism's Last Word." Trans. Peggy Kamuf. Critical Inquiry 12 (Autumn 1985).
_____. "Racism's Last Word." In "Race," Writing and Difference. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985. 329-38.
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. "'HOO, HOO, HOO': Some Episodes in the Construction of Modern Whiteness." American Drama 5.1(1995): 667-700.*
Gates, Henry Louis. Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the 'Racial' Self. New York: Oxford UP, 1990.
_____, ed."Race," Writing and Difference. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.
Harris, Trudier. Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984.
Henry, P. "The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn." In Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ed. Gerald Graff. (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Kadish, Doris Y., and Françoise Massardier-Kenney, eds. Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in Women's Writing, 1783-1823. Kent (OH): Kent State UP, 1994.
Larson, Charles. "Heroic Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature." In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 1995. 62-65.*
Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1992.
Santaulària i Capdevila, Isabel. "Racist Tendencies in Popular Writing." In On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain. Ed. Fernando Galván and Mercedes Bengoechea. Universidad de Alcalá, 1999. 73-82.*
Simons, Carrol. "The Black in White's Humour." In Literary and Linguistic Aspects of Humour: VIth AEDEAN Conference Proceedings. Barcelona: Departamento de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa de la Universidad de Barcelona, 1984. 245-50.*
Stam, R., and L. Spence. "Colonialism, Racism and Representation." Screen 24.2 (1983) 2-20.
See also Race and Literature; Racial representations; Minority criticism; Racism; Race.
British literature
Achebe, Chinua. "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Massachusetts Review 18 (1977): 782-94.
____. "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." In Postcolonial Discourses. Ed. Gregory Castle. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 209-20.*
_____. "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*
Galván Reula, F., and Mercedes Bengoechea, eds. On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain. Universidad de Alcalá, 1999.*
Hall, Kim F.Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England. Ithaca (NY): Cornell UP, 1995.*
Hunter, G. K. "Othello and Colour Prejudice." Proceedings of the British Academy 53 (1967): 139-63.
Jones, Eldred D. Othello's Countrymen: The African in English Renaissance Drama. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1965.
Leininger, Lorie Jerrell. "The Miranda Trap: Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare's Tempest." From The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespare. Ed. Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene and Carol Thomas neely. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1980. In The Tempest: Critical Essays. Ed. Patrick M. Murphy. New York; Routledge, 2001. 223-30.*
Orkin, Martin. "Othello and the 'Plain Face' of Racism." Shakespeare Quarterly 38 (1987): 166-88.
Smith, Ian. "Barbarian Errors: Performing Race in Early Modern England." Shakespeare Quarterly 49 (1998): 168-86.
_____. "Barbarian Errors: Performing Race in Early Modern England." In Political Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen. New York: Garland, 1999. 92-110.*
Whited, Lana. "1492, 1942, 1992: The Theme of Race in the Harry Potter Series." The Looking Glass: New Perspective on Children's Literature.
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/tlg/article/view/97/82
2018
US Literature
Abel, Elizabeth. "Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation." Critical Inquiry 19.3 (1993).
_____. "Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation." In Feminisms. Ed. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. Houndmills: Macmillan, n. d. 827-52.*
American Literature 65.3 (1993). [Special issue on "Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill"]
Benito, Jesús. "The Poetics and Politics of Resistance." In Narratives of Resistance: Literature and Ethnicity in the United States and the Caribbean. Ed. Jesús Benito and Ana María Manzanas. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 1999. 315-32.*
Benito, J., and A. Manzanas, eds. Narratives of Resistance: Literature and Ethnicity in the United States and the Caribbean. Cuenca: U de Castilla-La Mancha, 1999.
Brumm, Ursula. "Some Thoughts on Faulkner's 'Racism'." Connotations 6.1 (1996-97): 98-102.*
García Landa, José Ángel. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Miscelánea 10 (Zaragoza, 1989): 63-80.* Online edition (2004):
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/racism.html
_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." iPaper at Academia 9 Jan. 2011.*
2011
_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 9 Jan. 2011.*
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1737231
2011
Gubar, Susan. Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.*
Gunning, Sandra. Rape, Race, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912. (Race and American Culture). New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
Ladd, Barbara. Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner. Baton Rouge: Lousiana State UP, 1997.
Person, Leland S. "Poe's Philosophy of Amalgamation: Reading Racism in the Tales." In Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race. Ed. J. Gerald Kennedy and Liliane Weissberg. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. 205-24.*
Whalen, Terence. "Average Racism: Poe, Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism." In Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race. Ed. J. Gerald Kennedy and Liliane Weissberg. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. 3-40.*
Wu, William F. The Yellow Peril: Chinese Americans in American Fiction. Hamden (CT), 1982.
See also: Blacks in America
French literature
Angenot, Marc. Ce que l'on dit des Juifs en 1889: Antisémitisme et discours social. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1989.
Chevalier, Yves. L'Antisémitisme: Le juif comme bouc émissaire. Ed. du Cerf, 1988.
_____. "Les écrivains français et l'antisémitisme." Magazine littéraire 288 (1991): 72-74.
Klein, Luce A. Portrait de la Juive dans la littérature française. Paris: Nizet, 1970.
