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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / W. Lawrence Hogue.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Subjectivity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781461952411
- 1461952417
- 9781438448367
- 1438448368
- OCLC:
- 864139177
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