Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 3825363805
- ISBN-13
- 9783825363802
- Category
- Aesthetics, Black
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Universitatsverlag Winter
- Author
- Christian Schmidt
Description
Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Race and Postblack Literature -- 2 Postblack Aesthetics -- 2.1 Postblack Art, Black Culture, and Transdifference -- 2.2 The Post-Soul Generation -- 2.3 Scripts of Blackness and Thin Blackness -- 2.4 The Trope of Freedom -- 2.5 Cosmopolitan Ethics -- 2.6 Texts of the Postblack Aesthetics -- 3 Re-Forming Black Literature: Charles Johnson's "Oxherding Tale" and Short Fiction -- 3.1 "China"--Taking the Imaginative Leap into the Liberation of Perception -- 3.2 Freeing the Form in "Oxherding Tale"--3.3 "Put simply, your task is impossible": The Responsibility of an "Executive Decision -- 4 Re-Writing the Text of Blackness: "Mimetic hacks" in Trey Ellis's "Platitudes" and Percival Everett's "Erasure"--4.1 Cultural Mulattoes and the Script of Authentic Blackness -- 4.2 Intertextual Love and the "common vorld" of Platitudes -- 4.3 No Love Lost for the "real thing" in "Erasure" -- 5 Political Narratives of (Thin) Blackness: Paul Beatty's "The White Boy Shuffle" and Charles Johnson's "Dreamer" -- 5.1 Thin Blackness and Postblackness -- 5.2 Fighting "the eternal war for civility": "The White Boy Shuffle" -- 5.3 "If we stop, we'll fall and be trampled": "Dreamer" and the Imperative to Keep Moving -- 6 Beyond the Invisible Walls of Blackness: Cosmopolitan Themes in Adam Mansbach's "Angry Black White Boy" and Paul Beatty's "Slumberland" -- 6.1 Cosmopolitan Conviviality -- 6.2 The White Race Traitor in "Angry Black White Boy" -- 6.3 Declaring Blackness Passé in "Slumberland" -- 7 Epilogue: Is Postblackness the End of African American Literature -- 8 Works Cited -- Backcover
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