04226nam 2200781Ia 450 991045150950332120200520144314.00-8166-8427-8(CKB)1000000000470969(EBL)310263(OCoLC)476093390(SSID)ssj0000092619(PQKBManifestationID)11108685(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000092619(PQKBWorkID)10010420(PQKB)10895999(MiAaPQ)EBC310263(OCoLC)122882130(MdBmJHUP)muse39130(Au-PeEL)EBL310263(CaPaEBR)ebr10159356(CaONFJC)MIL522541(EXLCZ)99100000000047096919921026d1993 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccr(Dis)forming the American canon[electronic resource] African-Arabic slave narratives and the vernacular /Ronald A.T. Judy ; foreword by Wahneema LubianoMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19931 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2057-1 0-8166-2056-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 FormationPart 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; ZJudy 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.African Americans in literatureAmerican prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etcAmerican prose literatureArab American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etcArab Americans in literatureAutobiographyCanon (Literature)Narration (Rhetoric)SlaveryUnited StatesHistoriographySlaves' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismTheory, etcElectronic books.African Americans in literature.American prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etc.American prose literatureArab American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Arab Americans in literature.Autobiography.Canon (Literature)Narration (Rhetoric)SlaveryHistoriography.Slaves' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismTheory, etc.810.9/896073892.7Judy Ronald A. T769785MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451509503321Dis)forming the American canon1569750UNINA