Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives /

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"Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory"--Provided by publisher

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Subjectivity in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Postmodernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle.
Subjectivite dans la litterature.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity
  • Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire
  • The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure
  • Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz
  • Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other
  • Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure
  • The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues
  • Conclusion.

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