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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.
This article engages in an examination of Norman Mailer’s fascinating yet problematic essay “The White Negro” (1957).
Norman Kingsley Mailer ( Long Branch, Nueva Jersey, 31 de enero de 1923- Nueva York, 10 de noviembre de 2007), fue un escritor, novelista, periodista, ensayista, dramaturgo, cineasta, actor y activista político estadounidense. Junto con Truman Capote, está considerado el gran innovador del periodismo literario. 1 . Biografía.
El ‘White Negro’ del título hace referencia a un ‘hipster’ de la década de 1950 que vive para la gratificación inmediata.
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 ...
In a provocative contribution to this reframing, Christina Klein. offers "integration" as an analytic alternative to "containment" as a tool for understanding racial, sexual, and individual identity in the postwar period. Drawing on the insights of revisionist economic and diplomatic.
