Kimberly W Benston

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Black Refigurations: Facing, Naming and Voicing in African-American Literature, Volume IIIHardcover, 2 July 2024

Black Refigurations: Facing, Naming and Voicing in African-American Literature, Volume III
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Part of Series
Anthem Africana Studies
Print Length
250 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Anthem Press
Date Published
2 Jul 2024
ISBN-10
1785278738
ISBN-13
9781785278730

Description

Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study that offers a fresh reading of African-American literary history by locating within the literature itself the terms for a revisionary account of black writing, terms pursued along three distinct but interlocking pathways (each to be pursued in the Impact Series format): by charting figurations of tradition among six of the most innovative practitioners of black literary expression from Sterling Brown to Toni Morrison (Volume 1); by following the haunting pathways of spectral dialogues between slavery and African-American modernism (Volume 2); and by interrogating interlocking topoi of critique and assertion (naming; facing; voicing) across the history of African-American literary expression (Volume 3). The critical trilogy presents thereby a narrative of African-American literature as a continual, dialectical process, blending confrontation with traumatic origins and the quest for expressive transformation.

This project arises from the question: how does one construe and narrate the story of a tradition for which the conventional structure of literary history--that is, the relation between discourse and its referents--is itself such a politically and thematically charged issue? On one hand, the ideological exclusion of the African-American subject from authorized spheres of meaning and signification gives value to narrating black literary tradition as the progressive emergence of a fully articulate presence, and seems to find warrant in black writing's persistent thematization of literacy, public performance, and self-definition. On the other hand, such a narrative of fully realized agency and consciousness risks replicating the dominant ideology's own reductive vision of identity as a predetermined totality, thus imagining some singular and final form for African-American being. The study asserts instead that African-American literature is fueled by the simultaneous workings of a desire for a totally realized subject and the constant displacement of that desire by a willingness--in contrast to the oppressive system that would deny its agency--to put its own mode of being into question.

Product Details

Author:
Kimberly W Benston
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
2 July 2024
Dimensions:
22.91 x 15.29 x 2.59 cm
Genre:
African American
ISBN-10:
1785278738
ISBN-13:
9781785278730
Language:
English
Location:
London
Pages:
250
Publisher:
Weight:
453.59 gm

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