Melvillian Meditations in Charles Johnson's "Executive Decision"
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Melvillian Meditations in Charles Johnson's "Executive Decision"
Original language description
Regardless of its philosophical para-text, an overt reading of Charles Johnson's short story "Executive Decision" suggests very obvious ideological connotations. The story displays the racial pride and black agency along with the ideologically loaded either-or antithesis of a competition between a white woman and an African American man within a protracted job interview. At one point, the story even lapses into a sociological exposé. However, Johnson's intertextual pairing of the story with Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" significantly enhances its allusive potential, thereby redeeming the formulaic template of racial melodrama which Johnson frequently criticizes. By casting the African American character as a stand-in for Bartleby, the story opens up its narrow concern (affirmative action) to the larger theme of redistributive justice and the dangers of self-entitlement. In an eclectic reading, the story can even signify on the scarcity of positive male African American role models in the public eye, a theme which Johnson is very much preoccupied with.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
American and British Studies Annual
ISSN
1803-6058
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
9-22
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85100178291