The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present

ISBN-13: 9780810141667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 232 str.

James B. Haile

Spis treści

• Prologue: Portrait of a Petit Marionette
• Introduction: Etiology of a Black Text
• Chapter One: On Frederick Douglass and the “Image” of the Negro
• Chapter Two: Ralph Ellison, Fictive Authority and Existential Heroism: Magic and the Prestige in the Invisible Man
• Interlude: Some notes along the way
• Chapter Three:Colson Whitehead and the Science of the Word
• Chapter Four: Cecil Brown: The Functional Negro and the rise of ‘Jive Nigger’
• Conclusion:An Etiology of an Ending
• Epilogue: Petit Marionette in the black box
• Notes
• Index