Postmodern tales of slavery in the Americas : from Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson
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Postmodern tales of slavery in the Americas : from Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson
（Literary criticism and cultural theory : the interaction of text and society）（A Garland series）
Garland Pub., c2001
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Bibliography: p. 141-146
Includes index
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Description
Unlike 19th century slave narratives, many recent novel-like texts about slavery deploy ironic narrative strategies, innovative structural features, and playful cruelty. This study analyzes the postmodern aesthetics common to seven tales of slavery from the United States, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Cuba, abd Colombia from authors including Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Toni Morrison, and Charles Johnson.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: New Slavery Novels: Nation-ness and Imagination in the New World Contet 1. Using American Slavery to Construct Black Aesthetics 2. Dissembling History: Postmodern Irony as Narrative Strategy 3. Re(-)fusing the New World in Accounts of the middle Passage 4. Oscillatory Stuctures, Runny Away, and (Dis)Locating the Self Conclusion: Problematics of the Questioning of Identity Works Cited
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