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Postblack Aesthetics : the Freedom to Be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2017.
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| Colección: | American Studies - A Monograph Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Titel; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Race and Postblack Literature ; 2 Postblack Aesthetics ; 2.1 Postblack Art, Black Culture, and Transdifference ; 2.2 The Post-Soul Generation ; 2.3 Scripts of Blackness and Thin Blackness ; 2.4 The Trope of Freedom ; 2.5 Cosmopolitan Ethics.
- 2.6 Texts of the Postblack Aesthetics 3 Re-Forming Black Literature: Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale and Short Fiction; 3.1 "China"-Taking the Imaginative Leap into the Liberation of Perception ; 3.2 Freeing the Form in Oxherding Tale
- 3.3 "Put simply, your task is impossible": The Responsibility of an "Executive Decision.
- 4 Re-Writing the Text of Blackness: "Mimetic hacks" in Trey Ellis's Platitudes and Percival Everett's Erasure4.1 Cultural Mulattoes and the Script of Authentic Blackness ; 4.2 Intertextual Love and the "common vorld" of Platitudes ; 4.3 No Love Lost for the "real thing" in Erasure
- 5 Political Narratives of (Thin) Blackness: Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle and Charles Johnson's Dreamer
- 5.1 Thin Blackness and Postblackness 5.2 Fighting "the eternal war for civility": The White Boy Shuffle
- 5.3 "If we stop, we'll fall and be trampled": Dreamer and the Imperative to Keep Moving; 6 Beyond the Invisible Walls of Blackness: Cosmopolitan Themes in Adam Mansbach's Angry Black White Boy and Paul Beatty's Slumberland
- 6.1 Cosmopolitan Conviviality ; 6.2 The White Race Traitor in Angry Black White Boy
- 6.3 Declaring Blackness Passé in Slumberland
- 7 Epilogue: Is Postblackness the End of African American Literature 8 Works Cited ; Backcover.