Title: Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives /
Authors: Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
Year: 2013
Subjects: American literature African American authors History and criticism; Subjectivity in literature.; African Americans Intellectual life; Postmodernism (Literature) United States
Abstract: "Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmosternist theory"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.