The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance : : Reading Modernity Through Black Women's Fiction / / Carole Anne Taylor.
Carole Anne Taylor explores the network of cultural relations that links tragic and comic theory to views of what can or cannot be known or felt and what can or cannot be done. Reconceiving tragic and comic resistance through readings of works by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade...
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Taylor, Carole Anne, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance : Reading Modernity Through Black Women's Fiction / Carole Anne Taylor. Reprint 2016 Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] ©2000 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: Ideologies of the Terrible and the Funny -- Part I. Revising Postmodernity: Storytelling as Theory -- 1. The Tragedy of Slavery and the Footprints' Fit: Vicarious Witnessing in Beloved -- 2. Humor, Subjectivity, Unctuousness: The Case of Laughter in The Color Purple and The Women of Brewster Place -- 3. Tragedy and Comedy Reborn(e): The Critical Soul-Journeys in A Question of Power and The Salt Eaters -- Part II. Reading Recursively: Against Modernism's Apartheid -- 4. Who Owns the Terror in Absalom, Absalom!?: Quentin's Marriage and Clytie's Fire -- 5. Literary Passing: Ida, "Melanctha," and the Andrew-gyne -- 6. World-Traveling as Modal Skid: Hurston and Vodou -- Epilogue: Critical (Post)modernity: At the Borders of Arrogance and Possibility -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Carole Anne Taylor explores the network of cultural relations that links tragic and comic theory to views of what can or cannot be known or felt and what can or cannot be done. Reconceiving tragic and comic resistance through readings of works by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, and South African-born Bessie Head, she demonstrates how these writers elaborate the interconnections between a comedy that affirms wholesome normalcy in the face of terror and a tragedy that finds something terribly wrong in the social order itself. Paradoxically, she contends, these works place the highest value not on texts, reading, and writing, but on actual relationship and social action. Looking backward, Taylor next does a "recursive reading" of some problematic works by William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, and Zora Neale Hurston that have often been considered precursors of the "postmodern." Reading these earlier authors under the influence of contemporary texts and current theory explains modern artfulness or its lack, even when representations of the terrible and the funny offer conflicted relations to power and conflicted sites for readerly response. Taylor argues that the ellipsis of certain tragic and comic modes, particularly in theories of how and when the modern becomes the postmodern, corresponds to the repression of intercultural dialogue on a broader scale. Throughout, she makes a strong case that the tragedy and comedy of resistance should lie at the heart of theories of a critical (post)modernity--and can illuminate the connections between how to read and how to live in the world. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) African American women in literature. African American women Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. American fiction African American authors History and criticism. American fiction Women authors History and criticism. American fiction 20th century History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) United States. Women and literature United States History 20th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American. bisacsh African Studies. African-American Studies. Cultural Studies. Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812235104 https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512819595 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512819595 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512819595/original |
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