Chandler-Smith Gena E. The Wanderer in African American Literature 9781621905295

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Автор: Chandler-Smith Gena E.
Название: The Wanderer in African American Literature
ISBN: 9781621905295
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 1621905292
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 277
Вес: 0.48 кг.
Дата издания: 30.04.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 241 x 168 x 69
Ключевые слова: Black & Asian studies,Literary companions, book reviews & guides,Literary studies: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The Wanderer in African American Literature highlights an enduring feature of African American letters: From the slave narrative to Afrofuturism, the literature is populated, driven, and emboldened by wanderers who know no bounds. Gena E. Chandler argues that wanderers and the theme of wandering push the limits of narrative forms and challenge assumptions about the African American experience. The slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs echo eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literary traditions and chronicle journeys toward freedom and faith. Equiano traces his changing identity, integrating his native African culture with his adopted European one. Jacobs addresses the gender restrictions she faces as a slave and then a free woman whose progress in life remains uncertain and ongoing.Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen chronicle real and imagined journeys during the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration. Hughess autobiography I Wonder as I Wander (1956) traces his global travels in the 1930s, highlighting his unique identity as a black American. Larsens novel Quicksand (1928) follows its biracial heroine as she travels throughout the United States and to Denmark while navigating matters of race and gender. The protagonist of Richard Wrights The Outsider (1953) seeks individual freedom and a new identity but is constrained within the boundaries of an American nation and a Western ideal that continuously views the black Subject as outside and distinct from the modern project of advancement and freedom. In James Baldwins Giovannis Room (1956), the white protagonist flees America for France yet cannot escape difficult questions about sexuality and race. Finally, John Edgar Widemans The Cattle Killing (1996) tells the story of two wanderers-an itinerant preacher spreading Gods word during the Great Awakening and a twentieth-century writer on a journey of self-discovery about his identity and vocation. The former experiences a crisis of his Christian faith, and the latter endures a crisis of faith in his literary abilities. Tying these diverse threads together, Chandler demonstrates the power of the black narrative to assimilate and redeploy the literary trope of wanderlust, exchanging its premise of rootless drifting for something altogether more mobilizing.
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The Wanderer in African American Literature, Chandler-Smith Gena E.