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W. Lawrence Hogue
Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.
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Reads and interprets eight works of literature by people of color, foregrounding the philosophical debate about modernity vs. postmodernity rather than solely issues of race.
Argues that African American literature must take into account the rich diversity of African American life and culture.
Charles Wright's innovative fiction stands apart, offering a different vision of outcast Black Americans in the postwar era and using satire to bring agency and humanity to working-class characters. This…
A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different…
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The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue’s book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach…
W.Lawrence Hogue
Exposes the ways in which much postmodern American literature privileges a typically Eurocentric, male-oriented type of subjectivity, often at the expense of victimizing or objectifying the ethnic or gendered Other.
