Black subjects
Subtitle: identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery
By: Arlene R. Keizer.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Walcott, Derek.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Slavery in literature.; Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; African Americans in literature.; Slave trade in literature.; Blacks in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "the middle passage never guessed its end" : New World slavery in contemporary literature; title: Beloved : ideologies in conflict, improvised subjects; title: Being, race, and gender : Black masculinity and western philosophy in Charles Johnson's works on slavery; title: The chosen place, the timeless people : late capitalism in the Black Atlantic; title: Performance, identity, and mulatto aesthetics in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain; title: The geography of the Apocalypse : incest, mythology, and the fall of Washington city in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie; title: Conclusion : one lives by memory, not by truth.