Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination

by Adam Lively

Book Overview

What is "race"? A biological fact, a social construction, or an assumed disguise? In Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination, acclaimed novelist and critic Adam Lively offers a brilliant exploration of how the concept of blackness has evolved in Western thought and literature, and how changing notions of racial identity helped to shape modern consciousness.

Lively traces ideas of racial difference to their earliest expressions in European culture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195133706
• ISBN13: 9780195133707
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"