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The White Negro. 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". [1] The essay is a call to abandon Eisenhower liberalism and a ...
- Norman Mailer
- 1957
This article engages in an examination of Norman Mailer’s fascinating yet problematic essay “The White Negro” (1957). Drawing from humanities and social sciences perspectives, I employ an interdisciplinary approach that historically contextualizes Mailer’s essay while also examining how it continues to speak to contemporary American racial, cultural, economic, and socio-political issues.
The White Negro is a 9,000-word essay divided into six sections of varying lengths. In 'Section 1', Mailer argues that the twin horrors of the atom bomb and the concentration camps have wrought "psychic havoc" by subjecting individual human lives to the calculus of the state machine. The collective practices of Western progress seem to render ...
Before publishing “The White Negro,” Mailer was tossing around his thoughts on the matter in correspondence with friends. In one piece that he sent around for criticism, he expressed his belief that white men’s fear of black men’s sexual “superiority” could explain a good deal of white racial hatred. Superiority.
According to Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon, “The White Negro” became the “intellectual manifesto” of the Beat Generation, just as Jack Kerouac ’s On the Road represented the mythical roadmap and Allen Ginsberg ’s Howl the poetic testament. [1] “. The White Negro,” Lennon said, was “the most discussed American essay in ...
His next important work was a long essay, The White Negro (1957), a sympathetic study of a marginal social type—the “hipster.”. In 1959, when Mailer was generally dismissed as a one-book author, he made a bid for attention with the book Advertisements for Myself, a collection of unfinished stories, parts of novels, essays, reviews ...
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