Christian Ravela
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Ravela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravela |
| SIGNATURE | RAVELA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Beyond Ethnic Whiteness
This article explores the political possibilities in the “morphing” of Asian American identity from an excluded racial category into an assimilable ethnicity by turning to Gish Jen’s second novel, Mona in the Promised Land ( Mona ). In contrast to Asian American studies’ more common radical accounts, Mona elevates upper-middle-class Jewishness, the paradigmatic white ethnic identity, by placing it at the center of Asian American identity. In doin…
“Abandoning This Sinking Ship America”
This article explores the way The White Boy Shuffle delinks American citizenship’s hold on Black political subjectivity. Through a narrative analysis of Shuffle’s protagonist and minor characters, the author argues that the novel forwards what cultural historian Nikhil Pal Singh calls the “negative dialectic of race.” At the level of the protagonist, Shuffle’s deliberate adherence to the conventions of the classical bildungsroman but failed achie…
From the Body to Meat
This article theorizes two distinct but interrelated ethicopolitical projects of empowerment embedded in the history of Community Action through an analysis of the figure of the vato loco in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973). By situating the novel in the history of Community Action, I show how the novel outlines tensions between justice and responsibility in the ethical imagination of empowerment. Drawing on phenomeno…
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From the Body to Meat
This article theorizes two distinct but interrelated ethicopolitical projects of empowerment embedded in the history of Community Action through an analysis of the figure of the vato loco in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973). By situating the novel in the history of Community Action, I show how the novel outlines tensions between justice and responsibility in the ethical imagination of empowerment. Drawing on phenomeno…
“Abandoning This Sinking Ship America”
This article explores the way The White Boy Shuffle delinks American citizenship’s hold on Black political subjectivity. Through a narrative analysis of Shuffle’s protagonist and minor characters, the author argues that the novel forwards what cultural historian Nikhil Pal Singh calls the “negative dialectic of race.” At the level of the protagonist, Shuffle’s deliberate adherence to the conventions of the classical bildungsroman but failed achie…
Beyond Ethnic Whiteness
This article explores the political possibilities in the “morphing” of Asian American identity from an excluded racial category into an assimilable ethnicity by turning to Gish Jen’s second novel, Mona in the Promised Land ( Mona ). In contrast to Asian American studies’ more common radical accounts, Mona elevates upper-middle-class Jewishness, the paradigmatic white ethnic identity, by placing it at the center of Asian American identity. In doin…
Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Subjectivity (2 works) · White (mutation) (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (1 work) · Art (1 work)