Black Subjects : Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery /
Writers as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott have addressed the history of slavery in their literary works. In this groundbreaking new book, Arlene R. Keizer contends that these writers theorize the nature and formation of the black subjec...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press
[2018]
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3mtbw2 |
Mục lục:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction. "The Middle Passage Never Guessed Its End": New World Slavery in Contemporary Literature
- 1. Beloved: Ideologies in Conflict, Improvised Subjects
- 2. Being, Race, and Gender: Black Masculinity and Western Philosophy in Charles johnson's Works on Slavery
- 3. The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: Late Capitalism in the Black Atlantic
- 4. Performance, Identity, and "Mulatto Aesthetics" in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
- 5. The Geography of the Apocalypse: Incest, Mythology, and the Fall of Washington City in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter johnnie
- Conclusion. "One Lives by Memory, Not by Truth"
- NOTES
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX