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"This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the 'campus novel' of the mid-twentieth century. Martin Paul Eve's engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it."--Publisher's website.
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Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970's, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the face-to-face communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression.
American literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- African Americans --- City and town life in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American intellectuals --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- African Americans in literature --- City and town life in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Intellectual life --- African American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- african-american, literature, black, blackness, race, racism, subjectivity, postmodernism, print literacy, disillusionment, disenchantment, nonfiction, john edgar wideman, sapphire, ishmael reed, gloria naylor, toni morrison, samuel delany, octavia butler, book, reading, writing, oral storytelling, folk narrative, expression, urban, community, voyeurism, spectacle, information age, mediation, american south, heritage, belonging.
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