LEADER 03851nam 22005655 450 001 9910149454003321 005 20230808200356.0 010 $a1-4798-3477-7 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479834778 035 $a(CKB)3710000000933218 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4500695 035 $a(OCoLC)962306046 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53946 035 $a(DE-B1597)547447 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479834778 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000933218 100 $a20200723h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHow to Read African American Literature $ePost-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation /$fAida Levy-Hussen 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (160 pages) 311 $a1-4798-9094-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Against Prohibitive Reading (On Trauma) -- $t2. For Contradiction (On Masochism) -- $t3. The Missing Archive (On Depression) -- $t4. Reading African American Literature Now -- $tPostscript -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aHow to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen?s argument develops on two levels: as a textual analysis of black historical fiction, and as a critical examination of the reading practices that characterize the scholarship of our time. Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and feminist and queer theory, Levy-Hussen examines how works by Toni Morrison, David Bradley, Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, and others represent and mediate social injury and collective grief. In the criticism that surrounds these novels, she identifies two major interpretive approaches: ?therapeutic reading? (premised on the assurance that literary confrontations with historical trauma will enable psychic healing in the present), and ?prohibitive reading? (anchored in the belief that fictions of returning to the past are dangerous and to be avoided). Levy-Hussen argues that these norms have become overly restrictive, standing in the way of a more supple method of interpretation that recognizes and attends to the indirect, unexpected, inconsistent, and opaque workings of historical fantasy and desire. Moving beyond the question of whether literature must heal or abandon historical wounds, Levy-Hussen proposes new ways to read African American literature now. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American arts$xInfluence 606 $aRace awareness in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American arts$xInfluence. 615 0$aRace awareness in literature. 676 $a813.009/896073 700 $aLevy-Hussen$b Aida, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01376297 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149454003321 996 $aHow to Read African American Literature$93411915 997 $aUNINA