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Blacks in Eden : the African-American novel's first century

Title: Blacks in Eden : the African-American novel's first century / J. Lee Greene.
Author: Greene, J. Lee, 1944-2017.
Publication: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1996.

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Description

x, 306 pages; 24 cm

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Contents

1. Genesis. White Tillers. Black Harvesters. Gardens South, Gardens North -- 2. Belles and Beaux. Black Female Subjectivity and the Social Skin. Rituals for Aggregation. White Male Subjectivity and the Cult of Chivalry. A Renaissance of Chivalry: The House Behind the Cedars -- 3. Beauties and Beasts. A Peculiar Sensation, This Double-Consciousness. Black Man, New Man: Chesnutt's John (Walden) Warwick. The Beast-Bridegroom: Johnson's Ex-Coloured Man. The Machine-Made New Negro: Schuyler's Matthew Fisher -- 4. New Slaves and Lynching Bees. The Deformation of Black Subjectivity. A Strange Fruit in the New Garden. A New South, a New Religion. Subjects, Societies, and Tropes: The Marrow of Tradition -- 5. The Wars for Eden. Hell: War and Racism. France: (In)versions of Paradise. Harlem: Black Garden, White Snake. Southern Edens and the "Spoils" of War -- 6. Black Adams. Subjectivity and the Adamic Paradigm. The Cosmography of Native Son's Fictive World.
Configurations of Desire in The Street -- 7. Totems and Taboos. Configurations of a Southern Fictive World. Totemic Character and Biracial Liminals. Totemism and White Male Subject Formation. Historiographic Counterdiscourse: The Rootless -- 8. The Textualization of Blackness: Invisible Man. The Trope: "Here in This Eden" The Subject: "Who Was I, How Had I Come to Be?" The Society: "The Patterns of Men's Lives"

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96004581

OCLC

ocm34190997

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries