Postmodern tales of slavery in the Americas : from Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson /: from Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Timothy J. Cox.
• Other Names: Cox, Timothy J
• Contents: Introduction. New Slavery Novels: Nation-ness and Imagination in the New World Context -- Ch. 1. 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) -- Ch. 2. Dissembling History: Postmodern Irony as Narrative Strategy. Irony and the Impossibility of Writing. The Logic of Double Negatives. Overcoming Order -- Ch. 3. 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. Chango, el gran putas: African in Name, American in Form, Universal in Character. Caricature of a Non-existent Essence (A True Philosophical Conundrum) in Middle Passage. The Sign of the Crossing -- Ch. 4. Oscillatory Structures, Running Away, and (Dis)Locating the Self. What Running Away Means. 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 808.803520396073; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; Noirs -- Dans la littérature; Esclavage -- Dans la littérature; Amérique -- Littératures -- Histoire et critique; Blacks in literature; Slavery in literature; Slavernij; Fictie; Postmoderne; Literatur; Sklaverei; Literatur; Roman; Sklaverei (Motiv); Sklaverei; America -- Literatures -- History and criticism; Amerika; Amerika; USA
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135719814; 1135719810
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