While studies of literature may include traditionally marginalized
works, theories of literary form remain grounded in writings that
affirm the status quo. Carole Anne Taylor now reconceives the
theories of tragedy and comedy, drawing on African American
literature to show how the two are often interrelated.
Through readings of works by such writers as Toni Morrison,
Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, and South
African-born Bessie Head, Taylor argues for ways in which genre
theory and modern and postmodern literature can be brought
together. She demonstrates how these writers interrogate relations
of power from vantage points that theorize both intracultural and
intercultural difference, and how they question the notion of a
literature too much at ease with such opposites as oral and
written, self and other, and tragedy and comedy. By then
reconsidering works by William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, and Zora
Neale Hurston, Taylor further shows how theories generated "at the
margins" can enrich, complicate, and even embrace the literary
canon.
Taylor rethinks such traditional critical terms as "catharsis"
in productive ways that illuminate both marginalized and canonical
literature. She also provides a model for what "resistant
criticism" can contribute to a transformation of traditional theory
-- a transformation necessary if theories of genre are to cease
excluding African American works from their definition of what
literature is and does.
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