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Author Cox, Timothy J

Title Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas : From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (326 pages)
Series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction. New Slavery Novels: Nation-ness and Imagination in the New World Context; Chapter One. Using American Slavery to Construct Black Aesthetics; A New Time in the New World; Can You Dig? Identity through Archeology, Rhizomes, and Relation; All Together Now; No Longer the Chain-gang of Theory; Memory vs. History (and Myth); Chapter Two. Dissembling History: Postmodern Irony as Narrative Strategy; Irony and the Impossibility of Writing; The Logic of Double Negatives
Moi, Tituba, sorcière ... noire de Salem: Contradiction on Her Own TermsIrony as Alternative to Dialectic in La mulâtresse Solitude; Enriching "National" Identity and Historical Consciousness; Fictionalized History, Historical Fiction in El reino de este mundo; Overcoming Order; Chapter Three. Re( -- )fusing the New World in Accounts of the Middle Passage; Whence Sympathy for the Africans?; Going Alone on a Misguided Quest with Solitude and Tituba; Changó, el gran putas: African in Name, American in Form, Universal in Character
Caricature of a Non-existent Essence (A True Philosophical Conundrum) in Middle PassageThe Sign of the Crossing; Chapter Four. Oscillatory Structures, Running Away, and (Dis)Locating the Self; What Running Away Means; The Wandering Perpective in Biografía de un cimarrón; Running Away and Coming Home in Beloved; To Stop; Between Implied Reader and Actual Reader; Oscillatory Identities; Conclusion. Problematics of the Questioning of Identity; Folk Agency and Aesthetic Continuity; The Necessity of Irony for Making Sense in Self-referential Novels; What's in a Word; Works Cited; Index
Summary First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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Subject Cond́e, Maryse. Moi, Tituba, sorcìere
Schwarz-Bart, André, 1928-2006. Mul̂atresse Solitude
Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Reino de este mundo.
Zapata Olivella, Manuel. Chanǵo, el gran putas
Johnson, Charles, 1948- Middle passage
Barnet, Miguel, 1940- Biograf́ia de un cimarŕon
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
SUBJECT Beloved (Morrison, Toni) fast
Biografía de un cimarrón (Montejo, Esteban) fast
Changó, el gran putas (Zapata Olivella, Manuel) fast
Middle passage (Johnson, Charles) fast
Moi, Tituba, sorcière (Condé, Maryse) fast
Reino de este mundo (Carpentier, Alejo) fast
Subject Black people in literature
Slavery in literature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Black people in literature
Literature
Slavery in literature
SUBJECT America -- Literatures -- History and criticism
Subject America
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135719814
1135719810