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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806155603321

Autore

Hogue W. Lawrence <1951->

Titolo

Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / / W. Lawrence Hogue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-4619-5241-7

1-4384-4836-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9286/08996073

Soggetti

African Americans - Intellectual life

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Postmodernism (Literature) - United States

Subjectivity in literature

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

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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