Title:
Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery
Author:
Keizer, Arlene R.
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Publication Information:
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2004]
©2004
Physical Description:
xiii, 200 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction : "the middle passage never guessed its end" : New World slavery in contemporary literature -- Beloved : ideologies in conflict, improvised subjects -- Being, race, and gender : black masculinity and western philosophy in Charles Johnson's works on slavery -- The chosen place, the timeless people : late capitalism in the black Atlantic -- Performance, identity, and mulatto aesthetics in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- The geography of the Apocalypse : incest, mythology, and the fall of Washington city in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie -- Conclusion : one lives by memory, not by truth.
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ISBN:
9780801440953
9780801489044
Format :
Book