The sovereignty of quiet : beyond resistance in black culture.

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African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant, and this matrix has dominated our understanding of black communities and texts. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores how a different kind of expressiveness, from protests to readings to landmark texts...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quashie, Kevin Everod
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Temas:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Race identity.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Identité collective dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Intellectual life
African Americans > Race identity
Group identity in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Literatur
Schwarze
Widerstand > Motiv
Würde > Motiv
Introversion > Motiv
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: why quiet
  • Publicness, silence, and the sovereignty of the interior
  • Not double consciousness but the consciousness of surrender
  • Maud Martha and the practice of paying attention
  • Quiet, vulnerability, and nationalism
  • The capacities of waiting, the expressiveness of prayer
  • Conclusion: to be one.

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