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"Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban is the first book to analyze a substantial body of black male fiction from a central perspective. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, Charles Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Trey Ellis, David Bradley, and Wesley Brown. Coleman traces the Caliban legacy to early literary influences, primarily Ralph Ellison, and then deftly demonstrates its contemporary manifestations.".

"This study challenges those who argue for the liberating possibilities of the postmodern narrative, as Coleman reveals the pervasiveness of the Calibanic image and its tremendous influence."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
193

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Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban
2001, University Press of Kentucky
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction
Defining Calibanic Discourse
in the Black Male Novel and Black Male Culture 1
1
The Conscious and Unconscious Dimensions
of Calibanic Discourse Thematized
in Philadelphia Fire 18
2
The Thematized Black Voice
in John Edgar Wideman's
The Cattle Killing and Reuben 37
3
Clarence Major's Quest to Define
and Liberate the Self and the Black Male Writer 59
4
Charles Johnson's Response
to "Caliban's Dilemma" 81
5
Calibanic Discourse in Postmodern
and Non-Postmodern Black Male Texts 100
6
Ralph Ellison and the Literary Background
of Contemporary Black Male Postmodern Writers 129
Conclusion
The "Special Edge" Tension
Between the Conscious and Unconscious
in the Contemporary Black Male Postmodern Novel 148.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-183) and index.

Published in
Lexington, Ky

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5099286/08996073
Library of Congress
PS374.N4 C64 2001, PS374.N4C64 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
193 p. ;
Number of pages
193

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6777724M
Internet Archive
blackmalefiction00cole
ISBN 10
081312204X
LCCN
00012686
OCLC/WorldCat
45493385
Goodreads
6323312

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