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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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