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