Reading Multiple Consciousness - Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity

Through close readings of literary texts by Camara Laye to Ata Aidoo, via Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, this book re-evaluates the issue of double consciousness originally raised by W.E.B. DuBois and, in doing so, problematize the role of the intellectuals in relation to their community.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword: Beyond the Self/Other Binary, Kristina Marie Darling
Introduction
Chapter One: Multiple Consciousness: Laye Camara's The Dark Child and Richard Wright's Black Boy
Chapter Two: Audience, Double-Consciousness, and African Teachers of American Literature
Chapter Three: A Hungry Man is a Negro Man: Racializing Poverty in Richard Wright's Black Boy
Chapter Four: The Weakness of Power in Richard Wright's Native Son: Lesson Learned in the Context of American Exceptionalism
Chapter Five: The Black Man's Construction of his Own Invisibility in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Chapter Six: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting: Vital Steps at the Heart of the Harlem Renaissance
Conclusion: The Poetry of Langston Hughes: An Exceptional Critical Realism
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Komla M. Avono is faculty in the Department of English at the University of Lome, Togo.

Summary

Through close readings of literary texts by Camara Laye to Ata Aidoo, via Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, this book re-evaluates the issue of double consciousness originally raised by W.E.B. DuBois and, in doing so, problematize the role of the intellectuals in relation to their community.

Product details

• Authors: Komla M. Avono
• Assisted by: Kristina Marie Darling (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666960730
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-073-0
• No. of pages: 106
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Comparative Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Relating to African American people, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black