An edition of Postmodern tales of slavery in the Americas
(2000)
Postmodern tales of slavery in the Americas
from Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson
by Timothy J. Cox
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Blacks in literature, History and criticism, Literatures, Slavery in literature, Black people in literature, Personnes noires dans la littérature, Esclavage dans la littérature, Littératures, Histoire et critique, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, African American, Literature, Literatur, Sklaverei, Roman, Postmoderne, Slavernij, Fictie, Noirs, Dans la littérature, Esclavage, Amérique, Beloved (Morrison, Toni), Biografía de un cimarrón (Montejo, Esteban), Changó, el gran putas (Zapata Olivella, Manuel), Middle passage (Johnson, Charles), Moi, Tituba, sorcière (Condé, Maryse), Reino de este mundo (Carpentier, Alejo)Places
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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, sorcierenoire de Salem: Contradiction on Her Own Terms
Irony as Alternative to Dialectic in La mulatresse 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
Chang, 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
Chapter Four. Oscillatory Structures, Running Away, and (Dis)Locating the Self
What Running Away Means
The Wandering Perpective in Biografia de un cimarron
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-146) and index.
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