Postmodern tales of slavery in the Americas
Subtitle: from Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson
By: Timothy J. Cox.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory : The interaction of text and society; Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Blacks in literature.; Slavery in literature.; America -- Literatures -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-146) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter One. Using American Slavery to Construct Black Aesthetics; title: A New Time in the New World; title: Can You Dig? Identity through Archeology, Rhizomes, and Relation; title: All Together Now; No Longer the Chain-gang of Theory; title: Memory vs. History (and Myth); title: Chapter Two. Dissembling History: Postmodern Irony as Narrative; title: Strategy; title: Irony and the Impossibility of Writing; title: The Logic of Double Negatives; title: Moi, Tituba, sorcierenoire de Salem: Contradiction on Her Own Terms; title: Irony as Alternative to Dialectic in La mulatresse Solitude; title: Enriching "National" Identity and Historical Consciousness; title: Fictionalized History, Historical Fiction in El reino de este mundo; title: Overcoming Order; title: Chapter Three. Re(-)fusing the New World in Accounts of the Middle Passage; title: Whence Sympathy for the Africans?; title: Going Alone on a Misguided Quest with Solitude and Tituba; title: Chang, el gran putas: African in Name, American in Form, Universal in Character; title: Caricature of a Non-existent Essence (A True Philosophical; title: Conundrum) in Middle Passage; title: The Sign of the Crossing; title: Chapter Four. Oscillatory Structures, Running Away, and (Dis)Locating the Self; title: What Running Away Means; title: The Wandering Perpective in Biografia de un cimarron; title: Running Away and Coming Home in Beloved; title: To Stop; title: Between Implied Reader and Actual Reader; title: Oscillatory Identities; title: Conclusion. Problematics of the Questioning of Identity; title: Folk Agency and Aesthetic Continuity; title: The Necessity of Irony for Making Sense in Self-referential Novels; title: What's in a Word.