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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

Subjectivity in literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 331 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781438448350

143844835X

9781438448343

1438448341

OCLC:

823742045