Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas - From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List 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

About the author

Timothy J. Cox

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy J. Cox, Cox Timothy J.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2000
• EAN: 9780815338536
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3853-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Martinique, Cultural Studies, Guadeloupe, Cuba, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Slavery and abolition of slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form