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Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery / Arlene R. Keizer.
LIBRA PS374.S58 K45 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keizer, Arlene R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Slavery in literature.
- Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature (English).
- Walcott, Derek. Dream on Monkey Mountain.
- Walcott, Derek.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Slave trade in literature.
- Black people in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "the middle passage never guessed its end" : New World slavery in contemporary literature
- Beloved : ideologies in conflict, improvised subjects
- Being, race, and gender : black masculinity and western philosophy in Charles Johnson's works on slavery
- The chosen place, the timeless people : late capitalism in the black Atlantic
- Performance, identity, and "mulatto aesthetics" in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
- The geography of the Apocalypse : incest, mythology, and the fall of Washington city in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie
- Conclusion : "one lives by memory, not by truth".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801440955
- 0801489040
- OCLC:
- 54066353
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