Brother Outsider
Memoir and the Strategies of the Awkward Black
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4907348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tyrone R Simpson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 551-571 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2023.a936502 |
| OpenAlex | W4402273859 |
| Language | EN |
Using cultural theory, particularly theories of affect, this essay analyzes Ta-Nehisi Coates's memoir A Beautiful Struggle (2009) to highlight awkwardness as a trope that recent Black autobiographers deploy to underscore their racial interstitiality and to negotiate their fluctuating identification with blackness-a racial condition that by dint of Civil Rights reform entails both social privileges and persecutions. I show that the use of this trope seeks to produce a new racial category altogether
Art · Brother · Genealogy · Literature · Memoir · Sociology · Anthropology · History · South African History and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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