Discourse and the other : the production of the Afro-American text / W. Lawrence Hogue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Literature and society--United States.

Literature and society.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue's book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach to the study of the social, ideological, and political dynamics of the Afro-American literary text in the twentieth century, based on the Foucauldian concept of literature as social institution, examines the universalization that power effects, how literary texts are appropriated to meet ideological concerns and needs, and the continued oppression of dissenting voices.Hogue presents an illumi

Contents:

Literary Production: A Silence in Afro-American Critical Practice

The Dominant American Literary Establishment and the Production of the Afro-American Text

Sixties' Social Movements, the Literary Establishment, and the Production of the Afro-American Text

History, the Black Nationalist Discourse, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

History, the Feminist Discourse, and The Third Life of Grange Copeland

History, the Blues Idiom Style, and Train Whistle Guitar

The Song of Morrison's Sula: History, Mythical Thought, and the Production of the Afro-American Historical Past

The Post-Sixties, the Ideological Apparatus, and the Afro-American Text.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [183]-186.

ISBN:

9786613023681

9781283023689

1283023687

9780822382898

082238289X

OCLC:

191222191