Black Configurations - The Ethos of Tradition From Sterling Brown to Toni Morrison, Volume

Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of "tradition," haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.

List of contents

Volume I: Black Configurations: The Ethos of "Tradition" from Sterling Brown to Toni Morrison- Introduction: The Conceit of Tradition; Sterling Brown: Tradition as Vernacular "Lie"; Zora Neale Hurston: Tradition as Scene of Instruction; Ralph Ellison: Tradition as Tragicomic Encounter; Amiri Baraka; Tradition as the Changing Same; Larry Neal: Tradition as Kuntu Montage; Michael Harper: Tradition as Modal Improvisation; Toni Morrison: Tradition as Traumatic Re-Memory; Volume II: Black Hauntologies: Slavery, Modernity, and Spectral Re-Vision-Introduction: Haints of the Past; Spectral (Re)Origination: Modernity, Slavery, and Traumatic Enuncation; Spectral Revolution: Slavery, Modernity, and the Politics of Conversation; Spectral (Re)Vision: Photography, Archive, and Transgressive Illumination; Conclusion: Ghosts of the Future; Volume III: Black Refigurations: Facing, Naming, and Voicing-Pre-Face: Entering the Master's Book; (E)Facing: Topographical Visions; (Un)Naming: Transgressive Revisions; (Re)Voicing: Transformative Beginnings; Post-Script: Beyond the Copy-Book.

About the author

Kimberly W. Benston is Francis B. Gummere Professor of English and Africana Studies at Haverford College, where he has also served as Provost and President.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly W Benston, Kimberly W. Benston, Benston Kimberly W.
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2020, delayed
• EAN: 9781785278679
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-867-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Anthem Africana Studies; Anthem Africology Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people