Racial Conflicts in the Campus Novel of the Early 2000s: Philip Roth's The Human Stain and Zadie Smith's On Beauty

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angličtina

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Racial Conflicts in the Campus Novel of the Early 2000s: Philip Roth's The Human Stain and Zadie Smith's On Beauty

Original language description

The Human Stain (2000) is one of Philip Roth's most recent novels to feature the protagonist of a university professor and use the campus as an important setting. This paper thus analyses The Human Stain, alongside Zadie Smith's On Beauty (2005), as campus novels that respond to wider socio-political issues. In particular, both texts reflect racial anxiety on the American campus at the turn of the century. The Human Stain focuses on Coleman Silk, a classics professor at the fictional Athena College whois, towards the end of his career, unjustly charged of using a racial slur against African Americans in the classroom. Ironically, the novel reveals that Silk himself is an African American that has been passing for a Jewish American for his whole academic career. Similarly, On Beauty deals with two art professors fighting on the opposite sides of the Culture Wars at the fictional Wellington College. While the liberal one is a white Englishman who has married an African American woman, h

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture

ISSN

0862-8424

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Volume of the periodical

25 (2015)

Issue of the periodical within the volume

49

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

33-46

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