Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives /
Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / W. Lawrence Hogue. - 1 online resource (341 pages)
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.
9781438448367 (ebook)
African Americans--Intellectual life.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Subjectivity in literature.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / H63 2013eb
810.9/9286/08996073
Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / W. Lawrence Hogue. - 1 online resource (341 pages)
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.
9781438448367 (ebook)
African Americans--Intellectual life.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Subjectivity in literature.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / H63 2013eb
810.9/9286/08996073