The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance : Reading Modernity Through Black Women's Fiction /

Carole Anne Taylor explores the network of cultural relations that links tragic and comic theory to views of what can or cannot be known or felt and what can or cannot be done. Reconceiving tragic and comic resistance through readings of works by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taylor, Carole Anne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Edition:Reprint 2016.
Series:Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
Subjects:
1900-1999
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Noires américaines > Vie intellectuelle.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
American fiction.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction > Women authors.
Modernism (Literature)
Women and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: Ideologies of the Terrible and the Funny
  • Part I. Revising Postmodernity: Storytelling as Theory
  • 1. The Tragedy of Slavery and the Footprints' Fit: Vicarious Witnessing in Beloved
  • 2. Humor, Subjectivity, Unctuousness: The Case of Laughter in The Color Purple and The Women of Brewster Place
  • 3. Tragedy and Comedy Reborn(e): The Critical Soul-Journeys in A Question of Power and The Salt Eaters
  • Part II. Reading Recursively: Against Modernism's Apartheid
  • 4. Who Owns the Terror in Absalom, Absalom!?: Quentin's Marriage and Clytie's Fire
  • 5. Literary Passing: Ida, "Melanctha," and the Andrew-gyne
  • 6. World-Traveling as Modal Skid: Hurston and Vodou
  • Epilogue: Critical (Post)modernity: At the Borders of Arrogance and Possibility
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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