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050 00 $aPS3556.O738$bZ97 2005
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100 1 $aWilliams, Dana A.,$d1972-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98027930
245 10 $aIn the light of likeness--transformed :$bthe literary art of Leon Forrest /$cDana A. Williams.
260 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axviii, 155 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 147-152) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : "Let there be light, baby, let there be light!" : black cultural traditions and Leon Forrest's healing narratives -- $gCh. 1.$tThe meteor in the man - the artistic light of Leon Forrest -- $gCh. 2.$tSurvival and beyond : the journey motif and transcendence in There is a tree more ancient than Eden -- $gCh. 3.$t"Salvation is the issue" : black music as metaphor in The Bloodworth orphans -- $gCh. 4.$t"Learn it to the younguns" : bearing witness to the blues in Two wings to veil my face -- $gCh. 5.$tThough I am many, I am still yet one : reinvention in Divine days -- $gCh. 6.$t"Transformation of grief" : self-invention and survival in Meteor in the madhouse.
520 1 $a""In the Light of Likeness - transformed" by Dana A. Williams looks critically at the work of contemporary African American author Leon Forrest. Not only does she bring to the critical table a well-known but as yet understudied modernist author - an important endeavor in and of itself - but she also explores Forrest's novels' cultural dialogue with black ethnic culture and other African American authors, as well as provides in-depth readings of his prose and interpretations of his narrative style." "Forrest's highly experimental narrative style, his reinterpretation of modernism, and his transformations of black cultural traditions into literary aesthetics often pose challenges of interpretation for the reader and the scholar alike. As the first single-authored book-length study of Forrest's novel, this book offers readers pathways into his fiction. What this culturalist approach to the novels reveals is that Forrest's fiction was foremost concerned with investigating ways for the African American to survive in the contemporary moment. Through a variety of characters, the novels reveal the African American's art of transformation - the ability to find ways to make the wretchedness of the past work in positive ways."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aForrest, Leon$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002009
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024142.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3556.O738$iZ97 2005