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The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster is a 9,000-word essay by Norman Mailer that connects the "psychic havoc" wrought by the Holocaust and atomic bomb to the aftermath of slavery in America in the figuration of the Hipster, or the "white negro".
The cameos of security for the average white: mother and the home, lob and the family, are not even a mockery to millions of Negroes; they are impossible. The Negro has the simplest of alternatives: live a life of constant humility or ever-threatening danger.
It is the purpose of this essay to explore the effect of what might be termed historical and historicist pressures on the Romantic myth as manifested in Mailer's work, paying particular attention to his famous, or infamous, essay of 1957, "The White Negro."
En artículos-reportaje como "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster" (1956) y "Advertisements for Myself" (1959), Mailer examinó la violencia, la histeria, el delito y la confusión en la sociedad estadounidense. [7]
In full: Norman Kingsley Mailer. Born: January 31, 1923, Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. Died: November 10, 2007, New York, New York (aged 84) Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize. National Book Award (1968) Notable Works: “Advertisements for Myself” “An American Dream” “Ancient Evenings” “Barbary Shore” “Cannibals and Christians” “Harlot’s Ghost”
THE WHITE NEGRO. Superficial Reflections on the Hipster. Norman Mailer. Our search for the rebels of the generation led us to the hipster. The hipster is an enfant terrible turned inside out. In character with his time, he is trying to get back at the conformists by lying low ...
age white: mother and the home, job and the family, are not even a mockery to millions of Negroes; they are impossible. The Negro has the simplest of alternatives: live a life of con-stant humility or ever-threatening danger. In such a pass where paranoia is as vital to survival as blood, the Negro has stayed
