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Post-Race Ideology and the Poetics of Genre in David Mamet's Race

David Mamet's Race is overdetermined by the paratexts hovering around it, most notably the essays in which he publicizes his conservative turn. This textual environment accentuates the text's participation in a contemporary political discourse that social scientists have theorized as post-racialism. But Race accommodates more complex and conflicted meanings: I read the play not so much as an advertisement of post-race ideology but as a text that exposes and deconstructs this ideology. I argue that this layer of meaning is primarily an effect of the legal drama genre on which the text draws. The conventions of the legal drama that Race invokes activate meanings in the text that cannot be fully controlled by the backlash-agenda articulated in the author's essays. / "Der vorliegende Beitrag ist die pre-print Version. Bitte nutzen Sie für Zitate die Seitenzahl der Original-Version." (siehe Quellenangabe)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:14-qucosa-213568
Date21 December 2016
CreatorsKanzler, Katja
ContributorsUniversitätsverlag Winter GmbH,
PublisherSaechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
Languagedeu
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:bookPart
Formatapplication/pdf
SourceHerrmann, Sebastian M. (Hrsg.), Hofmann, Carolin Alice (Hrsg.), Kanzler, Katja (Hrsg.), Schubert, Stefan (Hrsg.), Usbeck, Frank (Hrsg.), Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture. Heidelberg: Universitätsverl. Winter GmbH, 2015. S. 175-194. ISBN 978-3-8253-6447-2

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