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Habitations of the veil : metaphor and the poetics of Black being in African American literature / Rebecka Rutledge Fisher.
Van Pelt Library PS153.N5 F536 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Rebecka Rutledge, 1965- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series, philosophy and race
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- Metaphor in literature.
- Literature.
- Metaphor.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 428 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- I Inhabiting the Veil: On Black Being
- 1 Being and Metaphor 15
- A Philosophy of Ordinary Black Being: Hurston's "Characteristics of Negro Expression" 23
- 2 African American Philosophy and the Poetics of Black Being 53
- Crafting a Poetics of Black Being: Du Bois's Philosophical Example 74
- Whither Blackness? Du Bois, Black Culture, and the Contemporaneity of Black Being 76
- II The Poetics of Black Being Before and After Du Bois
- 3 Being and Becoming: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African 89
- The Rhetoric of the Image: Being and Becoming in Equiano's Use of Portraiture 97
- Hope in Narrative: Equiano's Biblical Turn 115
- An Actuated Being 140
- 4 Remnants of Memory: Metaphor and Being in Frances E. W. Harper's Sketches of Southern Life 143
- The Evolution of Harper's Vernacular Poetry 148
- Between Metaphor and Black Being: Aunt Chloe's Structure of Poetic Memory 156
- 5 A Technology of Modern Black Being: "The Conservation of Races" as a Critical Ontology of Race 171
- Being in the Occasion of Discourse: "Conservation," Metaphor, and the Historical Narrative of Race 179
- A Technology of Black Being: "The Conservation of Races" as the Contested "Mediation by which We Understand Ourselves" 185
- The Interpretation of Black Historicity: Reading "Conservation" in Context 189
- "Conservation" and the Hermeneutics of Race 203
- 6 Habitations of the Veil: Souls, Figure, Form 217
- Incipit and Excipit 220
- Poem and Paratext: The African American Spiritual and the Strivings of Black Being 224
- Inspiriting Time: The Spiritual and the Ontology of the Slave 230
- Metaphors of Perceiving, Knowing, and Mourning 232
- Metaphors of Journeying and Insight 241
- Metaphors of the Temporal and the Atemporal 250
- The Fundamental Mythopoetics of Metaphor in African American Religion 259
- "The Souls Biography: Metaphors of Transition and Transcendence 268
- Navigating the Undulating Waters of Being: The Spirituals and the Possibilities of Metaphor 278
- 7 Symbolic Wrights: The Poetics of Being Underground 281
- Incipit 281
- Mapping Black Ontology and Black Freedom "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in Context 288
- Being Underground 296
- 8 A Love Called Democracy: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 313
- By Way of Conclusion 313
- Speaking for the Beloved 318
- Love's Habitation: Blackness, the Uncanny Maternal, and American Democracy 336
- The Repression of the Black Maternal 340
- Ihe Irresponsible Dreamer: Reveries of Sexual Love 346
- Sacrificing Sexual Desire 355
- Black Being's Moral of Love 359.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438449319
- 1438449313
- OCLC:
- 835951054
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