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Postblack aesthetics : the freedom to be black in contemporary African American fiction
- 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 256American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 256.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303).
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783825363802
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 19-999JFD 17-4570