Sabine Broeck Knihy

Exploring the intersection of race and gender, this book offers a critical examination of gender studies, highlighting its limitations in addressing anti-racist perspectives. It challenges existing frameworks and encourages a more inclusive approach that recognizes the complexities of identity. Through rigorous analysis, the author advocates for a redefined understanding of gender that incorporates race and promotes social justice. The work aims to inspire scholars and activists alike to rethink their methodologies and expand the discourse within gender studies.

Wie gelingt es, die noch heute anhaltenden Folgen von Kolonisierung und Versklavung theoretisch und methodisch umfassend zu begreifen? Der Band unternimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme von Positionen der Postkolonialen, Dekolonialen und der Black Studies. Dabei werden zum einen die unterschiedlichen epistemischen Voraussetzungen, methodischen Zugänge und historischen wie disziplinären Entwicklungen nachgezeichnet. Zum anderen zeigen sich die konzeptionellen Überschneidungen der unterschiedlichen sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlichen Positionen.

Reading a series of prose texts by 20th century white women writers ranging from The Making of Americans to Civil Wars this study interrogates a correlation between authors' subject positions as white and their textual investments in American history. It displaces the diffuse acceptance of whiteness as a given property by foregrounding it as a shared, and unquestioned feature of the white reader's and the text's consciousness. To trace the literary legacies of white amnesia about the Middle Passage is an urgent response to white women writers' participation in US-American historical mythology. At a point of convergence of Black Studies, American Studies and Gender Studies this investigation results in a profound denaturalization of what American history and American cultural memory may signify.