(Dis)forming the American canon [[electronic resource] ] : African-Arabic slave narratives and the vernacular / / Ronald A.T. Judy ; foreword by Wahneema Lubiano

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777881003321
• Autore: Judy Ronald A. T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993
• ISBN: 0-8166-8427-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/896073; 892.7
• Soggetti: African Americans in literature; American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc; American prose literature - Arab American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Arab Americans in literature; Autobiography; Canon (Literature); Narration (Rhetoric); Slavery - United States - Historiography; Enslaved persons' writings, American - History and criticism - Theory, etc
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Abbreviations Used in Citations of Kant's Work; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Critique of Incorporation; Part I. Writing Being: The Slave Narrative as the Original Text; 2 Critique of American Enlightenment: The Problem with the Writing of Culture; 3 Writing Culture in the Negro: Grammatology of Civil Society and Slavery; 4 Critique of Genealogical Deduction: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and the (Dis)Formation of Canon Formation; Part II. The Indeterminate Narrative of the African American Slave: A Negative History of Making Time in Arabic5 Africa as a Paralogism: The ; Task of the Ethnologists; 6 Designating Ben Ali's Manuscript Arabic; 7 Reading the Sign's Indeterminate Corpora; 8 Critique of Hypotyposis: The Inhuman Significance of Ben Ali's Diary; Epilogue: Thought After: Thinking Heterography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourse's claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African slave already had all the elements that the West attributes to "reason" before his original introduction to Western culture-a literacy that already mediated between Africa and Europe.