Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives
By: W. Lawrence Hogue
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781438448350; 9781438448343
Subjects: Subjectivity in literature; African American authors; Postmodernism (Literature); Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; African Americans
Description: "Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmosternist theory"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity; title: Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire; title: The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure; title: Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz; title: Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other; title: Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure; title: The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues; title: Conclusion.