Black metafiction : self-consciousness in African American literature
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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1997.
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x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Community College of Aurora - CentreTech - BOOKS
PS 374 .N4 J33 1997
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PS 374 .N4 J33 1997
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LC Subjects
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.
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Published
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1997.
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Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-200) and index.
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Black Metafiction examines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature. It points to the short-comings of theories of metafiction founded on studies of Anglo-American literature. While some literary critics situate metafiction within the domain of postmodernism, others regard it to be as old as storytelling itself. Scholars of African American literature acknowledge it to be a distinguishing feature. Critics such as Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Houston A. Baker, Jr., perceive it as fundamental to the aesthetics of the black vernacutar. Black Metafiction analyzes and evaluates these theories, comparing work by scholars of comparative, Anglo-American, and African American literature. Jablon's study leads to her revision of established theories and provides a model for the evaluation and reformulation of other Eurocentric theories. Jablon begins with a historical overview of theories of metafiction by scholars who specialize in African American literature and Anglo-American literature. She situates metafiction within African American literary history, tracing it from slave narratives to a discussion of ten contemporary novels, including Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar, Leon Forrest's Divine Days, Walter Mosley's Black Betty, Charles Johnson's Middle Passage, Rita Dove's Through the Ivory Gate, Arthur Flowers' Another Good Loving Blues, Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying, Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, Octavia Butter's Parable of the Sower, and Charlotte Watson Sherman's One Dark Body. Among the topics Jablon addresses are the Kunstlerroman and the blues hero; the thematization of art; voice, metanarrative, and the oral tradition; and genres of metafiction
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jablon, M. (1997). Black metafiction: self-consciousness in African American literature . University of Iowa Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jablon, Madelyn, 1956-. 1997. Black Metafiction: Self-consciousness in African American Literature. University of Iowa Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jablon, Madelyn, 1956-. Black Metafiction: Self-consciousness in African American Literature University of Iowa Press, 1997.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jablon, Madelyn. Black Metafiction: Self-consciousness in African American Literature University of Iowa Press, 1997.
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