Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives /

Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Subjects:
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Subjectivity in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.