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Reinventing the Ivory Tower: Racial Conflicts in Academia as Depicted in Black Campus Novels

Reinventing the Ivory Tower: Racial Conflicts in Academia as Depicted in Black Campus Novels

Bacci, Francesco

Hardcover

Series: European Perspectives on the United States, Book 19

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 18, 2027

ISBN10: 9004781625
ISBN13: 9789004781627
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 18 2027
Language: English
From Alice Walker's Meridian to Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Black writers reshape the campus novel into something new: a subgenre exploring spaces of racial conflicts and solidarity, in-betweenness, and resistance at the heart of academic life. In Reinventing the Ivory Tower, Francesco Bacci traces six decades of Black campus fiction - from the 1960s to the 2010s - showing how this subgenre diverges from the wider genre and rewrites its conventions, linking questions of race to gender, class, and sexuality. This book invites you to see how Black authors transform the literary representation of higher education, depict student activism, and redefine what belonging in academia really means.

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