Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson

ISBN-13: 9780815338536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 174 str.

Timothy J. Cox

Opis

This study analyzes the postmodern aesthetics common to seven tales of slavery from the USA, Martinique and Guadeloupe, Cuba and Columbia. The seven texts are: Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo (1949), Miguel Barnet's Biografia de un cimarr on (1966), Andr e Schwarz-Bart's La mul atresse Solitude (1972), Manuel Zapata Olivella's Chang o, el gran putas (1983), Maryse Cond e's Moi, Tituba, sorci ere...noire de Salem (1986), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage (1990).

Recenzje

"Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas attempts something that few literary critics have been in a position to do: to examine comparatively novels about slavery across the English, French, and Spanish literary traditions in the U.S. and the Caribbean." -- George Handley, Brigham Young University Mississippi Quarterly

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Introduction: New Slavery Novels: Nation-ness and Imagination in the New World Contet 1. Using American Slavery to Construct Black Aesthetics 2. Dissembling History: Postmodern Irony as Narrative Strategy 3. Re(-)fusing the New World in Accounts of the middle Passage 4. Oscillatory Stuctures, Runny Away, and (Dis)Locating the Self Conclusion: Problematics of the Questioning of Identity Works Cited

O autorze

Timothy J. Cox