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Systemic Racism: Reading Ralph Ellison with Bourdieu’s Theory of Powerrogressive Black author has remained a fundamental controversy in the field of literary criticism. Rather than focusing on Ellison’s political views, this chapter attempts to contribute to the debate by reading his major work, the novel . (1952), as a radical expression of systemic anti-Black racism

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Literariness and the Double Bind of Stigmare still deeply embedded in public consciousness and frequently find their expression in acts of discrimination. This chapter considers the role that literary texts, especially life writing by individuals with ‘mental illnesses,’ can play in efforts to undermine stereotypes about ‘the mad.’ The comp

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Civilization and Its Discontents: Reading Chuck Palahniuk’s , with Norbert Eliasand Chuck Palahniuk’s . as forms of resistance against the systemic control of modern capitalism. I have chosen to read . through the lens of Norbert Elias’s sociology because it is more deeply responsive to the way the novel ‘enacts’ the emotional dynamics of ‘putting the body at risk’. Elias’s soc

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