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  1. Postblack aesthetics
    the freedom to be black in contemporary African American fiction
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783825374914
    RVK Categories: HU 1728
    DDC Categories: 810; 420
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: American studies - a monograph series ; volume 256
    Subjects: Epik; Ethnische Identität <Motiv>; Schwarze; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 302 Seiten)
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    Dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2014

  2. Postblack aesthetics
    the freedom to be black in contemporary African American fiction
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, [Germany]

    Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Race and Postblack Literature -- 2 Postblack Aesthetics -- 2.1 Postblack Art, Black Culture, and Transdifference -- 2.2 The Post-Soul Generation -- 2.3 Scripts of Blackness... more

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    Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Race and Postblack Literature -- 2 Postblack Aesthetics -- 2.1 Postblack Art, Black Culture, and Transdifference -- 2.2 The Post-Soul Generation -- 2.3 Scripts of Blackness and Thin Blackness -- 2.4 The Trope of Freedom -- 2.5 Cosmopolitan Ethics -- 2.6 Texts of the Postblack Aesthetics -- 3 Re-Forming Black Literature: Charles Johnson's "Oxherding Tale" and Short Fiction -- 3.1 "China"-Taking the Imaginative Leap into the Liberation of Perception -- 3.2 Freeing the Form in "Oxherding Tale" -- 3.3 "Put simply, your task is impossible": The Responsibility of an "Executive Decision -- 4 Re-Writing the Text of Blackness: "Mimetic hacks" in Trey Ellis's "Platitudes" and Percival Everett's "Erasure" -- 4.1 Cultural Mulattoes and the Script of Authentic Blackness -- 4.2 Intertextual Love and the "common vorld" of Platitudes -- 4.3 No Love Lost for the "real thing" in "Erasure" -- 5 Political Narratives of (Thin) Blackness: Paul Beatty's "The White Boy Shuffle" and Charles Johnson's "Dreamer" -- 5.1 Thin Blackness and Postblackness -- 5.2 Fighting "the eternal war for civility": "The White Boy Shuffle" -- 5.3 "If we stop, we'll fall and be trampled": "Dreamer" and the Imperative to Keep Moving -- 6 Beyond the Invisible Walls of Blackness: Cosmopolitan Themes in Adam Mansbach's "Angry Black White Boy" and Paul Beatty's "Slumberland" -- 6.1 Cosmopolitan Conviviality -- 6.2 The White Race Traitor in "Angry Black White Boy" -- 6.3 Declaring Blackness Passé in "Slumberland" -- 7 Epilogue: Is Postblackness the End of African American Literature -- 8 Works Cited -- Backcover

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783825374914
    RVK Categories: HU 1728
    Series: American Studies – A Monograph Series ; v.256
    Subjects: Race in literature; Literature; American literature; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (313 pages).