Black metafiction : self-consciousness in African American literature
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- ISBN: 0877455600 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780877455608 (acid-free paper)
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Physical Description:
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x, 209 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1997.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-200) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Mimesis of process: the thematization of art: Charles Johnson, Middle passage -- Alice Walker, The temple of my familiar -- 3. The Künstlerroman and the blues hero: Rita Dove, Through the ivory gate -- Arthur Flowers, Another good loving blues -- 4. Revision, dialogism, and intertextuality: Ernest J. Gaines, A lesson before dying -- Toni Morrison, Tar baby -- 5. Voice, metanarrative, and the oral tradition: Charlotte Watson Sherman, One dark body -- Leon Forrest, Divine days -- 6. Metafiction as genre: Walter Mosley, Black Betty -- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the sower -- 7. Conclusion. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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