Melvillian Meditations in Charles Johnson's "Executive Decision"
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
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Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Melvillian Meditations in Charles Johnson's "Executive Decision"
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
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.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Melvillian Meditations in Charles Johnson's "Executive Decision"
Popis výsledku anglicky
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.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>SC</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60205 - Literary theory
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2020
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
American and British Studies Annual
ISSN
1803-6058
e-ISSN
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Svazek periodika
13
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
10
Stát vydavatele periodika
CZ - Česká republika
Počet stran výsledku
14
Strana od-do
9-22
Kód UT WoS článku
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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-85100178291