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Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives (Hardcover)
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Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives (Hardcover)
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This book explores how African American social and political
movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and
traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation
of the African American as deviant other. After surveying African
American history and cultural politics, W. Lawrence Hogue provides
original and insightful readings of six experimental/postmodern
African American texts: John Edgar Wideman s "Philadelphia Fire";
Percival Everett s "Erasure"; Toni Morrison s "Jazz"; Bonnie Greer
s "Hanging by Her Teeth"; Clarence Major s "Reflex and Bone
Structure"; and Xam Wilson Cartier s "Muse-Echo Blues." Using
traditional cultural and western forms, including the blues, jazz,
voodoo, virtuality, radical democracy, Jungian/African American
Collective Unconscious, Yoruba gods, black folk culture, and black
working class culture, Hogue reveals that these authors uncover
spaces with different definitions of life that still retain a
wildness and have not been completely mapped out and trademarked by
normative American culture. Redefining the African American novel
and the African American outside the logic, rules, and values of
western binary reason, these writers leave open the possibility of
psychic liberation of African Americans in the West."
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