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.