Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas
Subtitle: From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory.)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780815338536
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Postmodernism; Slavery & emancipation; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Literary Criticism; Cuba; Guadeloupe; Martinique; USA; Literatures; Rhetoric; Literary Criticism & Collections / African-American & Black; Blacks in literature; American - African American & Black; America; History and criticism; Slavery in literature
First sentence: Recent novels of slavery in the Americas affirm contemporary "minority" cultural presence and citizenship, because they relate a repressed past to a problematic present in ways that establish an international African American aesthetic legacy that is intimately related to (fully symbiotic with) those of the dominant European American cultures.