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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Quashie, Kevin Everod
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Introversion > Motiv
Würde > Motiv
Widerstand > Motiv
Schwarze
Literatur
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Group identity in literature.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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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