Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 257 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. African Americans in literature
2. African diaspora in literature
3. American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
4. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
5. Black people in literature
6. Fiction > Black authors > History and criticism
7. Self in literature
8. Slavery in literature

Call number

1. Sc E 08-1671

Bibliography (note)

1. Mythopoeic realities -- The subject(s) of diasporan desire : Jean Toomer as literary ancestor -- Modalities of rememory : the womanist project -- The reading, the writing, and the arithmetic of the Black masculinist project -- Textual androgyny, the androgyne, and the many-tongued chorus of the common memory -- The third gender among the common memory : unspeakables barely spoken -- Conclusion : diasporan literacy, sacred geometry, and the visual arts.

Author

1. Greene, J. Lee.

Title

1. The diasporan self : unbreaking the circle in western Black novels / J. Lee Greene.

Imprint

1. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

Bibliography

1. Mythopoeic realities -- The subject(s) of diasporan desire : Jean Toomer as literary ancestor -- Modalities of rememory : the womanist project -- The reading, the writing, and the arithmetic of the Black masculinist project -- Textual androgyny, the androgyne, and the many-tongued chorus of the common memory -- The third gender among the common memory : unspeakables barely spoken -- Conclusion : diasporan literacy, sacred geometry, and the visual arts.

ISBN

1. 9780813927398
2. 0813927390

Research call number

1. Sc E 08-1671