Research Catalog

Title

Postblack aesthetics : the freedom to be black in contemporary African American fiction / Christian Schmidt.

Author

Schmidt, Christian (Assistant Professor for American and Intercultural Anglophone Studies)

Publication

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2017]

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Details

Description

viii, 303 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

American studies - a monograph series, 0178-1987 ; volume 256

Uniform Title

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 256.

Subjects

• American literature > African American authors
• Race in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• Literature > Black authors
• Aesthetics, Black
• Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique
• Noirs américains > Esthétique
• African American aesthetics

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303).

Contents

Introduction: Race and Postblack Literature -- 2 Postblack Aesthetics -- 2.1 Postblack Art, Black Culture, and Transdifference -- 2.2 The Post-Soul Generation -- 2.3 Scripts of Blackness and Thin Blackness -- 2.4 The Trope of Freedom -- 2.5 Cosmopolitan Ethics -- 2.6 Texts of the Postblack Aesthetics -- 3 Re-Forming Black Literature: Charles Johnson's "Oxherding Tale" and Short Fiction -- 3.1 "China"-Taking the Imaginative Leap into the Liberation of Perception -- 3.2 Freeing the Form in "Oxherding Tale" -- 3.3 "Put simply, your task is impossible": The Responsibility of an "Executive Decision -- 4 Re-Writing the Text of Blackness: "Mimetic hacks" in Trey Ellis's "Platitudes" and Percival Everett's "Erasure" -- 4.1 Cultural Mulattoes and the Script of Authentic Blackness -- 4.2 Intertextual Love and the "common vorld" of Platitudes -- 4.3 No Love Lost for the "real thing" in "Erasure" -- 5 Political Narratives of (Thin) Blackness: Paul Beatty's "The White Boy Shuffle" and Charles Johnson's "Dreamer" -- 5.1 Thin Blackness and Postblackness -- 5.2 Fighting "the eternal war for civility": "The White Boy Shuffle" -- 5.3 "If we stop, we'll fall and be trampled": "Dreamer" and the Imperative to Keep Moving -- 6 Beyond the Invisible Walls of Blackness: Cosmopolitan Themes in Adam Mansbach's "Angry Black White Boy" and Paul Beatty's "Slumberland" -- 6.1 Cosmopolitan Conviviality -- 6.2 The White Race Traitor in "Angry Black White Boy" -- 6.3 Declaring Blackness Passé in "Slumberland" -- 7 Epilogue: Is Postblackness the End of African American Literature.

Call Number

Sc D 19-999

ISBN

• 9783825363802
• 3825363805

LCCN

• 2017285350
• 9783825363802

OCLC

988252912

Author

Schmidt, Christian (Assistant Professor for American and Intercultural Anglophone Studies), author.

Title

Postblack aesthetics : the freedom to be black in contemporary African American fiction / Christian Schmidt.

Publisher

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

American studies - a monograph series, 0178-1987 ; volume 256

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 256.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303).

Other Standard Identifier

9783825363802

Research Call Number

Sc D 19-999

JFD 17-4570