Writing the subject : bildung and the African American text /

Writing the subject : bildung and the African American text /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kester, Gunilla Theander, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [1995].
Series:American university studies. Series XXIV, American literature ; vol. 54
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Race in literature.
Bildungsromans, American > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The African American double subject: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
  • ch. 2. A double heritage: Invisible man, Wilhelm Meister and Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
  • ch. 3. A double code: language and the female subject in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Gayl Jones' Eva's man
  • ch. 4. The rhetoric of freedom in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose
  • Conclusion: REpresentation/PREsentation: writing the subject.