Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African Americ... - 9781438448343

State University of New York Press

Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American NarrativesAuthor(s): W. Lawrence Hogue\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438448343, 978-1438448343\nSynopsis\nExamines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.\n\nThis 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 Cartir'.