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BL
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589838
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b419057
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| Main Entry
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Hogue, W. Lawrence,1951-
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| Title & Author
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives /\ W. Lawrence Hogue
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viii, 331 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9781438448350 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 143844835X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9781438448343 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1438448341 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion
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| Abstract
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"Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmosternist theory"--Provided by publisher
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American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism
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Subjectivity in literature
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African Americans-- Intellectual life
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Postmodernism (Literature)-- United States
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| LC Classification
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PS153.N5H63 2013
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