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100 1 $aLangley, April C. E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007035570
245 14 $aThe Black aesthetic unbound :$btheorizing the dilemma of eighteenth-century African American literature /$cApril C.E. Langley.
260 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axiv, 210 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Historical and Cultural Recovery: Eighteenth-Century Scholarship and the Politics of Visibility -- $gCh. 1.$tThe Dilemma of a Ghost: Early Black American Literature and Its Mournings/Moorings -- $gCh. 2.$tWhat a Difference a "Way" Makes: Wheatley's Ways of Knowing -- $gCh. 3.$tKaleidoscopic Re-memory in Equiano's Interesting Narrative: Shifting the Lens to Replace the Landscapes -- $gCh. 4.$tReading "Others" in Eighteenth-Century Afro-British American Literature: The Promise and the Dilemma of New Ways of Reading.
520 1 $a"During the era of the slave trade, more than 12 million Africans were brought as slaves to the Americas. Their memories, ideas, beliefs, and practices would forever reshape its history and cultures. April C. E. Langley's The Black Aesthetic Unbound exposes the dilemma of the literal, metaphorical, and rhetorical question, "What is African in African American literature?" Confronting the undeniable imprints of West African culture and consciousness in early black writing such as Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative or Phillis Wheatley's poetry, the author conceives eighteenth-century Black Experience to be literally and figuratively encompassing and inextricably linked to Africa, Europe, and America." "Consequently, this book has three aims: to locate the eighteenth century as the genesis of the cultural and historical movements which mark twentieth-century black aestheticism - known as the Black Aesthetic; to analyze problematic associations of African identity as manifested in an essentialized Afro-America; and to study the relationship between specific West African modes of thought and expression and the emergence of a black aesthetic in eighteenth-century North America. By exploring how Senegalese, Igbo, and other West African traditions provide striking new lenses for reading poetry and prose by six significant writers, Langley offers a fresh perspective on this important era in our literary history. Ultimately, the author confronts the difficult dilemma of how to use diasporic, syncretic, and vernacular theories of Black culture to think through the massive cultural transformations wrought by the Middle Passage."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100736
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114006
650 0 $aAmerican literature$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101045
650 0 $aAmerican literature$yRevolutionary period, 1775-1783$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101046
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y1783-1850$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101035
650 0 $aAesthetics, Black.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001447
600 10 $aWheatley, Phillis,$d1753-1784$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aEquiano, Olaudah,$d1745-1797.$tInteresting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96020459
600 10 $aAidoo, Ama Ata,$d1942-$tDilemma of a ghost.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007019590.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007019590-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007019590-d.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS153.N5$iL35 2008
852 00 $bbar$hPS153.N5$iL35 2008