Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / / W. Lawrence Hogue.

• Author: Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Albany : : State University of New York Press,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (341 pages)

Table of Contents

• Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity
• Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire
• The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure
• Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz
• Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other
• Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure
• The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues
• Conclusion.