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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	September 2015
Genre:	Sprache
ISBN:	9781433130069
EAN-Code:	9781433130069
Verlag:	Peter Lang
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 231 mm / B 155 mm / D 15 mm
Gewicht:	418 gr
Seiten:	186
Zus. Info:	HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
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Inhalt:

Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques. This book examines novels by Ishmael Reed, Charles Johnson, and Toni Morrison, and two novels by comparative newcomer Colson Whitehead ¿ all of whom have used postmodern techniques not only to help their work be read, but to gain a racially wide audience that is open, willing, and able to understand. Jean-François Lyotard¿s concept of local narratives and grand narratives helps show how African American novels, using postmodern strategies, function as small-scale narratives. Consequently, these narratives, set up in opposition to hegemonic metanarratives, offer readers an alternative mode of thinking to that offered by the larger, more widely diffused and self-distributing grand narratives. By providing realistic characters in ways that defy the typical grand narratives of race, as well as the expectations of storytelling itself, readers are stimulated into new realizations about previously accepted ideas, and become prepared to spread the now-realized truth about the inaccuracies of the racist grand narratives. This book is a vital and thought-provoking addition to the ongoing conversation about storytelling and race, and will engage readers in classroom discussions dealing with race, postmodernism, or twentieth-century literature in a more general sense.