Reading Multiple Consciousness
Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2024
1 pages
978-1-9787-9394-1 (ISBN)
Description
For over a century, the intellectual debate of scholars from African descent has been dominated by the idea of double consciousness spearheaded by W.E.B. DuBois. Interestingly, with many years of vexatious issues of the encounter between the West and Africa, many scholars approached the debate on the basis of the consciousness of the Self and the Other. However, this idea seems to overlook the multiplicities of being black/white. Reading Multiple Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity suggests a different approach to the issue by taking more steps beyond double consciousness. It enriches the debate over race literature and colonization as it offers another way of reading texts. This book proposes that the complexity of postmodern identity is more accurately described by a theory of multiple consciousness. This study arises out of the necessity of a more nuanced theoretical framework for a younger generation of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic, a conceptual approach that does justice to the complexity of their experience.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-9394-1 (9781978793941)
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12/2024
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Persons
Komla M. Avono is faculty in the Department of English at the University of Lome, Togo.
Content
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
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
