Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives /
[Book]
W. Lawrence Hogue
viii, 331 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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"Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmosternist theory"--Provided by publisher
African Americans-- Intellectual life
American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism