Black Male Fiction And The Legacy Of Caliban

Author : James W. Coleman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813193557

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Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban by James W. Coleman Pdf

With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype in the modern era depicting black men as slaves and savages who threaten civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects and themselves from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they often unconsciously retell the story, making their heroes into modern-day Calibans. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, Charles Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Trey Ellis, David Bradley, and Wesley Brown. He traces the Caliban legacy to early literary influences, primarily Ralph Ellison, and then deftly demonstrates its contemporary manifestations. This engaging study challenges those who argue for the liberating possibilities of the postmodern narrative, as Coleman reveals the pervasiveness and influence of Calibanic discourse. At the heart of James Coleman's study is the perceived history of the black male in Western culture and the traditional racist stereotypes indigenous to the language. Calibanic discourse, Coleman argues, so deeply and subconsciously influences the texts of black male writers that they are unable to cast off the oppression inherent in this discourse. Coleman wants to change the perception of black male writers' struggle with oppression by showing that it is their special struggle with language. Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban is the first book to analyze a substantial body of black male fiction from a central perspective.

Author : Jeffrey B. Leak
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 157233357X

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Racial Myths and Masculinity in African American Literature by Jeffrey B. Leak Pdf

The portrayal of black men in our national literature is controversial, complex, and often contradictory."In Racial Myths and Masculinity in African American Literature, Jeffrey B. Leak identifies some of the long-held myths and stereotypes that persist in the work of black writers from the nineteenth century to the present--intellectual inferiority, criminality, sexual prowess, homosexual emasculation, and cultural deprivation. Utilizing Robert B. Stepto's call-and-response theory, Leak studies four pairs of novels within the context of certain myths, identifying the literary tandems between them and seeking to discover the source of our culture's psychological preoccupation with black men. Calling upon interdisciplinary fields of study--literary theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, legal theory, and queer theory--Leak offers ground breaking analysis of both canonical texts (representing the "call" of the call-and-response dyad) and texts by emerging writers (representing the "response"), including Frederick Douglass and Charles Johnson: Ralph Ellison and Brent Wade; Richard Wright and Ernest J. Gaines; and Toni Morrison and David Bradley. Though Leak does not claim that the "response" tests are superior to the "call' texts, he does argue that, in some cases, the newer work--such as charles Johnson's "Oxherding Tale--can address a theme or offer a narrative innovation not found in preceding texts, such as "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. In these instances, argues Leak, the newer texts constitute not only a response to the call text, but a substantial revision. Leak offers the first in-depth criticism of black masculinity in a range of literary texts. In a final chapter, he expands his discussion to the emerging field of black masculinity studies, pointing to future directions for study, including memoir, film, drama, and others. Poised on the brink of exciting new trends in scholarship, "Racial Myths and Masculinity in African American Literature is flagship work, enhancing the understanding of literary constructions of black masculinity and the larger cultural imperatives to which these writers are reacting.

Author : Dellita Martin-Ogunsola
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826262424

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The Eve/Hagar Paradigm in the Fiction of Quince Duncan by Dellita Martin-Ogunsola Pdf

"In this first book-length study in English devoted to Duncan's work, Martin-Ogunsola explores the issues of race, class, and gender in five of Duncan's major works published during the 1970s. Focusing primarily on the roles of women, Martin-Ogunsola uses the figures of Eve and the Egyptian slave Hagar to provide, through metaphor, an in-depth analysis of the female characters portrayed in Duncan's prose. Specifically, the Eve/Hagar paradigm is employed to examine how the essential characteristics of femininity play out in the context of ethnicity and caste. The book begins with Dawn Song (1970), the story of Antillean immigrants struggling with migration, oppression, and resistance while adapting to a new environment, and continues through Dead-End Street (1979), a novel exploring the ramifications of the myths, perpetuated through history, that defines Costa Rica in terms of Euro-Hispanic culture." "Martin-Ogunsola illustrates Duncan's use of a female presence that challenges the traditional treatment of women in literature. Spanning the period between the initial settlement of the Atlantic region of Costa Rica during the early years of the twentieth century to the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War, Martin-Ogunsola's book invites the reader to view the world through the eyes of Duncan's female characters." "The Eve/Hagar Paradigm in the Fiction of Quince Duncan examines some of the most compiling issues of contemporary Latin American literature and illustrates how a prominent Costa Rican writer deconstructs the stereotype of woman as wife/lover/slave. In the process, Duncan finds his own voice. Exposing aspects of Costa Rican society that have historically been kept in the shadows, this volume makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Latin American literary canon."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Author : Karen Dillon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476666969

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The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture by Karen Dillon Pdf

The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently offer the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness--standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison. Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon, this first comprehensive study of twins in American literature and popular culture examines the historical narrative--within the discourses of experimentation, aberrance and eugenics--and how it has shaped their representations in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015057973581

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South Atlantic Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tracie Church Guzzio
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1617030058

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All Stories Are True by Tracie Church Guzzio Pdf

In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman’s entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes-history, myth, and trauma-throughout his career, showing how they intertwine. Guzzio argues that, for four decades, the influential African American writer has endeavored to create a version of the African American experience that runs counter to mainstream interpretations, using history and myth to confront and then heal the trauma caused by slavery and racism. Wideman's work intentionally blurs boundaries between fiction and autobiography, myth and history, particularly as that history relates to African American experience in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fusion of fiction, national history, and Wideman's personal life is characteristic of his style, which-due to its complexity and smudging of genre distinctions-has presented analytic difficulties for literary scholars. Despite winning the PEN/Faulkner award twice, for Sent for You Yesterday (1984) and Philadelphia Fire (1990), Wideman remains under-studied. Of particular value is Guzzio's analysis of the many ways in which Wideman alludes to his previous works. This intertextuality allows Wideman to engage his books in direct, intentional dialogue with each other through repeated characters, images, folktales, and songs. In Wideman's challenging of a monolithic view of history and presenting alternative perspectives to it, and his allowing past, present, and future time to remain fluid in the narratives, Guzzio finds an author firm in his notion that all stories and all perspectives have merit.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American arts
ISBN : UVA:X030049018

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African American Review by Anonim Pdf

As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association of America, African American review promotes an exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives of African American literature and culture.

Author : Keneth Kinnamon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476609126

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Richard Wright by Keneth Kinnamon Pdf

African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.

Author : Anna Brooks Creagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3507791

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Postcolonial Nightmares by Anna Brooks Creagh Pdf

Author : James Leslie Woodress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015068947012

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American Literary Scholarship by James Leslie Woodress Pdf

Author : Hans A. Ostrom,J. David Macey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015003043495

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: U-Z by Hans A. Ostrom,J. David Macey Pdf

Designed to meet the needs of high school students, undergraduates, and general readers, this encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference available on African American literature from its origins to the present. Other works include many brief entries, or offer extended biographical sketches of a limited selection of writers. This encyclopedia surpasses existing references by offering full and current coverage of a vast range of authors and topics. While most of the entries are on individual authors, the encyclopedia gathers together information about the genres and geographical and cultural environments in which these writers have worked, and the social, political, and aesthetic movements in which they have participated. Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical and cultural forces that have shaped African American writing. - Publisher.

Author : Rebecca Ann Bartlett
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0838982328

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Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles, 1998-2002 by Rebecca Ann Bartlett Pdf

Author : Nely Keinänen,Maria Salenius
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124145124

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Authority of Expression in Early Modern England by Nely Keinänen,Maria Salenius Pdf

Authority of Expression in Early Modern England brings together an international group of scholars writing on the relationships between authority and the self in early modern English literature, discussing writers such as Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton and Andrew Marvell. The early modern period was a time of momentous religious, political and cultural change, with scientific and geographical exploration opening new horizons, challenging established truths, and unsettling the concepts and practices of authority. In this book, scholars approach the texts from a literary, historical and/or linguistic point of view, thus providing multiple perspectives on the topic. Themes explored include the links between sense perception and cognition in the establishment of authority; the ways that sexuality, gender relations and language are implicated in expressing and responding to authority; and conceptions of the self and the strategies that individuals adopt to cope with changes in their frameworks of authority and power. This wide-ranging collection offers new perspectives on how authority was negotiated in the English Renaissance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015057952833

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : GK Hall
Publisher : G. K. Hall
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0783804938

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Index to Black Periodicals 2003 by GK Hall Pdf

This classic, one-volume reference work now indexes more than 35 journals, both popular and scholarly, representing the rich culture and current history of African Americans. Among the topics treated in each edition of the annual Index are gender issues, literature, education, business, discrimination, health care and the arts. Interviews, obituaries and book and drama reviews are also included. The Index is international in scope, including African countries and regions, but its emphasis is on the extraordinary diversity of the African American experience. Authors, subjects and numerous cross-references are combined in a single, convenient alphabetical arrangement. The Index formerly appeared under the titles "Index to Periodical Articles By and About Blacks, Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes" and "Index to Selected Periodicals By and About Negroes." G.K. Hall published a ten-year cumulation of the "Index" covering the years 1950-1959 and began publishing the "Index" on an annual basis in 1961. The volumes from 1961 forward were published in conjunction with The Hallie Q. Brown Memorial Library at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio; The New York Public Library's Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History also participated during the years 1960-1970. In mid-1984, G.K. Hall assumed editorial responsibility for the "Index. " Periodicals indexed include: "About Time African American Pulpit, The African American Review Afro-Americans in New York Life and History American Legacy American Visions Black Enterprise Black Issues in Higher Education Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir Black Scholar Callaloo CLA Journal V Crisis Ebony Emerge Equity and Excellence in Education Heart & Soul Howard Journal of Communications International Review of African-American Jet Journal of Black Psychology, The Journal of Black Studies Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Journal of Negro Education MultiCultural Review Muslim Journal National Black Law Journal Obsidian III Public Culture Race and Class Research in African Literatures Review of Black Political Economy Transition Upscale Vital Issues Western Journal of Black Studies, The"