LEADER 04226nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910451509503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-8427-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000470969 035 $a(EBL)310263 035 $a(OCoLC)476093390 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000092619 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108685 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000092619 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10010420 035 $a(PQKB)10895999 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310263 035 $a(OCoLC)122882130 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse39130 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310263 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10159356 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL522541 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000470969 100 $a19921026d1993 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a(Dis)forming the American canon$b[electronic resource] $eAfrican-Arabic slave narratives and the vernacular /$fRonald A.T. Judy ; foreword by Wahneema Lubiano 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1993 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-2057-1 311 $a0-8166-2056-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aPart 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 330 $aJudy 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. 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xArab American authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aArab Americans in literature 606 $aAutobiography 606 $aCanon (Literature) 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 606 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistoriography 606 $aSlaves' writings, American$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xArab American authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aArab Americans in literature. 615 0$aAutobiography. 615 0$aCanon (Literature) 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 615 0$aSlavery$xHistoriography. 615 0$aSlaves' writings, American$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 676 $a810.9/896073 676 $a892.7 700 $aJudy$b Ronald A. T$0769785 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451509503321 996 $aDis)forming the American canon$91569750 997 $aUNINA