Habitations of the veil : metaphor and the poetics of black being in African American literature / Rebecka Rutledge Fisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Rebecka Rutledge, 1965- author.

Series:

SUNY series, philosophy and race.

SUNY Series, Philosophy and Race

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Metaphor in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Poetics of Being Black""; ""A Question of Black Being""; ""I: Inhabiting the Veil: On Black Being""; ""1 Being and Metaphor""; ""A Philosophy of Ordinary Black Being: Hurston�s “Characteristics of Negro Expression�""; ""2 African American Philosophy and the Poetics of Black Being""; ""Crafting a Poetics of Black Being: Du Bois�s Philosophical Example""; ""Whither Blackness? Du Bois, Black Culture, and the Contemporaneity of Black Being""; ""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""""The Rhetoric of the Image: Being and Becoming in Equiano�s Use of Portraiture""; ""Becoming and Belonging: National Desire and Spiritual Being in Equiano�s Time""; ""Hope in Narrative: Equiano�s Biblical Turn""; ""Phases of Being: Biblical Metaphorics in Equiano�s Narrative of Becoming""; ""Exile""; ""Freedom and the Liminal""; ""Abjection""; ""Faith""; ""Conversion and Salvation""; ""Actuation""; ""An Actuated Being""

""4 Remnants of Memory: Metaphor and Being in Frances E. W. Harper�s Sketches of Southern Life""""The Evolution of Harper�s Vernacular Poetry""; ""Between Metaphor and Black Being: Aunt Chloe�s Structure of Poetic Memory""; ""5 A Technology of Modern Black Being: “The Conservation of Races� as a Critical Ontology of Race""; ""Being in the Occasion of Discourse: “Conservation""; ""A Technology of Black Being: “The Conservation of Races� as the Contested “Mediation by which We Understand Ourselves�""

""The Interpretation of Black Historicity: Reading “Conservation� in Context""""“Conservation� and the Hermeneutics of Race""; ""6 Habitations of the Veil: Souls""; ""Incipit and Excipit""; ""Poem and Paratext: The African American Spiritual and the Strivings of Black Being""; ""Inspiriting Time: The Spiritual and the Ontology of the Slave""; ""Metaphors of Perceiving, Knowing, and Mourning: “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,� “Of the Dawn of Freedom,� and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others""

""Metaphors of Journeying and Insight: “Of the Meaning of Progress,� “Of the Wings of Atalanta,� and “Of the Training of Black Men""""Metaphors of the Temporal and the Atemporal""; ""The Fundamental Mythopoetics of Metaphor in African American Religion""; ""The Soul�s Biography: Metaphors of Transition and Transcendence""; ""Navigating the Undulating Waters of Being: The Spirituals and the Possibilities of Metaphor""; ""7 Symbolic Wrights: The Poetics of Being Underground""; ""Incipit""; ""Mapping Black Ontology and Black Freedom: “Blueprint for Negro Writing� in Context""

""Being Underground""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438449333

143844933X

OCLC:

887973287