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Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery
- Title
- Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery / Arlene R. Keizer.
- Author
- Keizer, Arlene R.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 200 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : "the middle passage never guessed its end" : New World slavery in contemporary literature -- Beloved : ideologies in conflict, improvised subjects -- Being, race, and gender : black masculinity and western philosophy in Charles Johnson's works on slavery -- The chosen place, the timeless people : late capitalism in the black Atlantic -- Performance, identity, and "mulatto aesthetics" in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- The geography of the Apocalypse : incest, mythology, and the fall of Washington city in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie --Conclusion : "one lives by memory, not by truth".
- Call Number
- Sc E 04-1030
- ISBN
- 0801440955 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801489040 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004001133
- OCLC
- 54066353
- Author
- Keizer, Arlene R.
- Title
- Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery / Arlene R. Keizer.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 04-1030