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Writing the subject : bildung and the African American text
- Title
- Writing the subject : bildung and the African American text / Gunilla Theander Kester.
- Author
- Kester, Gunilla Theander, 1958-
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, c1997.
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Details
- Description
- 178 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- American university studies. vol. 54
- Subjects
- Race in literature
- Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism
- American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
- Subjectivity in literature
- Maturation (Psychology) in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Bildungsromans > History and criticism
- Postmodernism (Literature) > United States
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-169) and index.
- Contents
- ch. 1. The African American double subject: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- ch. 2. A double heritage: Invisible man, Wilhelm Meister and Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass -- ch. 3. A double code: language and the female subject in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Gayl Jones' Eva's man -- ch. 4. The rhetoric of freedom in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose -- Conclusion: REpresentation/PREsentation: writing the subject.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-13521
- ISBN
- 0820437271 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 45102396
- Author
- Kester, Gunilla Theander, 1958-
- Title
- Writing the subject : bildung and the African American text / Gunilla Theander Kester.
- Imprint
- New York : P. Lang, c1997.
- Series
- American university studies. Series XXIV. American literature ; vol. 54
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-169) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-13521