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oapen-20.500.12657-438482023-02-01T09:02:22Z Power Relations in Black Lives Buschendorf, Christa Literary Criticism Subjects & Themes General bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism 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, 2020-12-15T14:03:09Z 2020-12-15T14:03:09Z 2017 book 9783839436608 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43848 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839436608 103979 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839436608 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839436608 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) transcript Verlag Bielefeld Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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,
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