The Free-lance Pallbearers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Free-lance Pallbearers write by Ishmael Reed. This book was released on 1999. The Free-lance Pallbearers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "For all the talk of the black aesthetic, few black novelists have broken sharply with the traditional devices of the realistic novel. One writer who departs from such conventions, however, is Ishmael Reed. . . . The Free-Lance Pallbearers uses an explosive combination of straightforward English prose, exaggerated black dialect, hip jargon, advertising slogans and long, howling uppercase screams." Newsweek
The Freelance Pallbearers
The Freelance Pallbearers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Freelance Pallbearers write by Ishmael Reed. This book was released on 1990. The Freelance Pallbearers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fables of Subversion
Fables of Subversion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fables of Subversion write by Steven Weisenburger. This book was released on 1995. Fables of Subversion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on more than thirty novels by nineteen writers, Fables of Subversion is both a survey of mid-twentieth century American fiction and a study of how these novels challenged the conventions of satire. Steven Weisenburger focuses on the rise of a radically subversive mode of satire from 1930 to 1980. This postmodern satire, says Weisenburger, stands in crucial opposition to corrective, normative satire, which has served a legitimizing function by generating, through ridicule, a consensus on values. Weisenburger argues that satire in this generative mode does not participate in the oppositional, subversive work of much twentieth-century art. Chapters focus on theories of satire, early subversions of satiric conventions by Nathanael West, Flannery O'Connor, and John Hawkes, the flowering of "Black Humor" fictions of the sixties, and the forms of political and encyclopedic satire prominent throughout the period. Many of the writers included here, such as Vladimir Nabokov, William Gaddis, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Coover, and Thomas Pynchon, are acknowledged masters of contemporary humor. Others, such as Mary McCarthy, Chester Himes, James Purdy, Charles Wright, and Ishmael Reed, have not previously been considered in this context. Posing a seminal challenge to existing theories of satire, Fables of Subversion explores the iconoclastic energies of the new satires as a driving force in late modern and post-modern novel writing.
Black World/Negro Digest
Black World/Negro Digest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black World/Negro Digest write by . This book was released on 1969-02. Black World/Negro Digest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.
Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self
Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self write by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Harvard University. This book was released on 1987-07-16. Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The originality, brilliance, and scope of the work is remarkable.... Gates will instruct, delight, and stimulate a broad range of readers, both those who are already well versed in Afro-American literature, and those who, after reading this book, will eagerly begin to be."--Barbara E. Johnson, Harvard University. "A critical enterprise of the first importance.... Gates promises to lead and to show the way in boldness of conception, in vigor of execution, and in vitality and pertinence of expression."--James Olney, Louisiana State University. Recently awarded Honorable Mention from the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee of the American Studies Association, Figures in Black takes a provocative new look at how we analyze and define black literature. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., attacks the notion that the dominant mode of Afro-American literature is, or should be, a kind of social realism, evaluated primarily as a reflection of the "Black Experience." Instead, Gates insists that critics turn to the language of the text and bring to their work the close, methodical analysis of language made possible by modern literary theory. But his goal in this volume is not merely to "apply" contemporary theory to black texts. Indeed, as he ranges from 18th-century poet Phillis Wheatley to modern writers Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker, he attempts to redefine literary criticism itself, moving it away from a Eurocentric notion of a hierarchical canon--mostly white, Western, and male--to foster a truly comparative and pluralisic notion of literature. In doing so, he provides critics with a powerful tool for the analysis of black art and, more important, reveals for all readers the brilliance and depth of the Afro-American tradition.
