Komla M Avono

Reading Multiple Consciousness

Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

Through close readings of literary texts by Camara Laye to Ata Aidoo, via Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, this book re-evaluates the issue of double consciousness originally raised by W.E.B. DuBois and, in doing so, problematize the role of the intellectuals in relation to their community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781666960730
• ISBN-10: 166696073X
• Artikelnr.: 71682386

Autorenporträt

Komla M. Avono

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword: Beyond the Self/Other Binary, Kristina Marie Darling
Introduction
Chapter One: Multiple Consciousness: Laye Camara's The Dark Child and
Richard Wright's Black Boy
Chapter Two: Audience, Double-Consciousness, and African Teachers of
American Literature
Chapter Three: A Hungry Man is a Negro Man: Racializing Poverty in Richard
Wright's Black Boy
Chapter Four: The Weakness of Power in Richard Wright's Native Son: Lesson
Learned in the Context of American Exceptionalism
Chapter Five: The Black Man's Construction of his Own Invisibility in Ralph
Ellison's Invisible Man
Chapter Six: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting: Vital Steps at the
Heart of the Harlem Renaissance
Conclusion: The Poetry of Langston Hughes: An Exceptional Critical Realism
Bibliography
About the Author