Hogue Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4836-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 339 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hogue, W. Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Subjectivity

2. Multiple Representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire

3. The Trickster Figure, The African American Virtual Subject, and Percival Everett’s Erasure

4. Using Jazz Music and Aesthetics to Redescribe the African American in Toni Morrison’s Jazz

5. Revolting to Sustain Psychic Life: Bonnie Greer’s Hanging by Her Teeth and the Encounter with the Other

6. Virtual-Actual Reality and Clarence Major’s Reflex and Bone Structure

7. The Jungian/African Collective Unconscious, Jazz Aesthetics, and Xam Cartiér’s Muse-Echo Blues

8. Conclusion

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

W. Lawrence Hogue is John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of several books, including The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History, also published by SUNY Press.