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Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban /

With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype in the modern era depicting black men as slaves and savages who threaten civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects and themselves from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-2019
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Defining Calibanic discourse in the Black male novel and Black male culture
  • The conscious and unconscious dimensions of Calibanic discourse thematized in Philadelphia fire
  • The thematized black voice in John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle killing and Reuben
  • Clarence Major's quest to define and liberate the self and the Black male writer
  • Charles Johnson's response to the "Caliban's dilemma"
  • Calibanic discourse in postmodern and non-postmodern Black male texts
  • Ralph Ellison and the literary background of contemporary Black male postmodern writers
  • The "special edge" tension between the conscious and unconscious in the contemporary Black male postmodern novel.