The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero : Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present /

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"The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present combines philosophy, literary theory, and jazz studies with Africana studies to develop a theory of the black male literary imagination. In doing so, it seeks to answer fundamental aestheti...

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Main Author: Haile, James B., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Whitehead, Colson > 1969-
Ellison, Ralph > 1914-1994
Douglass, Frederick > 1818-1895
Brown, Cecil > 1943-
African American men in literature.
American literature > African American authors > 21st century > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > 19th century > History and criticism.
Schwarze > Motiv
Literatur
American literature > African American authors.
Hommes noirs americains dans la litterature.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Portrait of a Petit Marionette
  • Introduction: Etiology of the Black Male Literary Text
  • On Frederick Douglass and the "Image" of the Negro
  • Ralph Ellison, Fictive Authority and Existential Heroism: Magic and the Prestige in the Invisible Man
  • Interlude: Some notes along the way
  • Colson Whitehead's "Dark Matter" Prophecy
  • Cecil Brown: The Functional Negro and the rise of 'Jiveass Nigger'
  • Conclusion: An Etiology of an Ending
  • Epilogue: Petit Marionette in the black box

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