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PLAYING WITH EXPECTATIONS
POSTMODERN NARRATIVE CHOICES AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVEL |
| By: |
Preston Park Cooper |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£65.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1433130068 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781433130069 |
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| Publisher: |
PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2015 |
| Series: |
Modern American Literature 70 |
| Pages: |
177 |
| Description: |
Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques. |
| Synopsis: |
Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques. This book examines novels by Ishmael Reed, Charles Johnson, and Toni Morrison, and two novels by comparative newcomer Colson Whitehead - all of whom have used postmodern techniques not only to help their work be read, but to gain a racially wide audience that is open, willing, and able to understand. Jean-Francois Lyotard's concept of local narratives and grand narratives helps show how African American novels, using postmodern strategies, function as small-scale narratives. Consequently, these narratives, set up in opposition to hegemonic metanarratives, offer readers an alternative mode of thinking to that offered by the larger, more widely diffused and self-distributing grand narratives. By providing realistic characters in ways that defy the typical grand narratives of race, as well as the expectations of storytelling itself, readers are stimulated into new realizations about previously accepted ideas, and become prepared to spread the now-realized truth about the inaccuracies of the racist grand narratives. This book is a vital and thought-provoking addition to the ongoing conversation about storytelling and race, and will engage readers in classroom discussions dealing with race, postmodernism, or twentieth-century literature in a more general sense. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
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