• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: History's Happy Ending: Bare Theory and the Novel
  • Beteiligte: Rasberry, Vaughn
  • Erschienen: Duke University Press, 2018
  • Erschienen in: Novel, 51 (2018) 2, Seite 362-373
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1215/00295132-6846210
  • ISSN: 0029-5132; 1945-8509
  • Schlagwörter: Literature and Literary Theory
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  • Beschreibung: Abstract Reading British writer Francis Spufford's 2008 novel Red Plenty, a fictionalized account of life in the Soviet Union during the early Khrushchev years, this essay defends a bare theory of race against what it calls a novelistic theory of race. Whereas the latter—powerfully dramatized in novels like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) and Richard Wright's The Outsider (1953)—stresses the (long-denied) depth and complexity of black subjectivity, the former eschews considerations of black particularity for a punitive, state-sponsored approach to racial injustice.