Christel N. Temple

Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise

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Produktbeschreibung

Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007), have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source that comprehensively defines and models literary praxis from the vantage point of Africana Studies. This highly anticipated seminal study finally institutionalizes the discipline's literary enterprise. Framing the concept of transcendence, she covers over a dozen traditional African American works in an original and thought-provoking analysis that places canonical approaches in enlightened discourse with Africana studies reader-response priorities. This study makes traditional literature come alive in conversation with topics of masculinity, womanism, Black Lives Matter, humor, Pan-Africanism, transnationalism, worldview, the subject place of Africa, cultural mythology, hero dynamics, Black psychology, demographics, history, Black liberation theology, eulogy, cultural memory, Afro-futurism, the Kemetic principle of Maat, social justice, rap and hip hop, Diaspora, and performance. Scholars now have a focused Africana Studies text-for both introductory and advanced literature courses-to capture the power of the African American literary canon while modeling the most dynamic practical applications of humanities-to-social science practices.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Africana Studies
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781498545105
• ISBN-10: 1498545106
• Artikelnr.: 58502727

Autorenporträt

By Christel N. Temple - Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Canon and the Africana Worldview
1. Literary Africology
2. Twentieth Century Black Lives Mattered: Male Mortality in The Souls of
Black Folk and The Living Is Easy
3. "Can't the Race Stand a Joke": Humor and Pan-African Folk Negotiation in
Banjo
4. Africana Literary Methods and the Bibliographic Shift in Iola Leroy and
The Street
5. Autobiography and Documentary Forms of Here I Stand as Black Cultural
Mythology
6. A Raisin in the Sun and the Tradition of Literary Pan-Africanism
7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and the Demographic Literary Standard
8. The Parable of the Sower's Earthseed as Black Liberation Theology
9. Self-Eulogy as Prophetic Afro-Futurism in Narratives of John Henrik
Clarke and Malcolm X
10. Maat and the Psychology of Justice in the Morrisonesque Community of
Perfect Peace
11. Beyoncé? No. Lauryn Hill? Yes: Interludes of Womanist Hip Hop and the
Traditional Activist Genre
12. Broadway as Text: Africana History on Stage in Hamilton and Aida
13. Image and Verse, Music and Media: Diasporic Performance of Cultural
Memory
Conclusion: An Atmosphere of Freedom