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In belonging to an oppressed/colonized racial group in the West, where their voices, humanity, history, culture, reality, and subjectivity are perpetually under siege, distorted, and/or erased, African American writers since the 1960s have struggled to be heard and represented. Yet, despite the racism, terror, trauma, and dehumanization, they, in revisiting, reclaiming, and reassessing their history and culture, used their decolonized imaginations and agency to reconfigure their history, subjectivity, and reality, and to invoke a more humane and just world, with love, despite all the odds.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Literature, Society, and Politics: Defining African American Literature as a Resisting Deleuzian Minor Literature; Chapter 2 A Postcolonial, Capitalist, Racial, and Existential Reading of Richard Wright's Native Son; Chapter 3 The Blues, Individuated Subjectivity, and James Baldwin's Another Country; Chapter 4 Voodoo, the Neo-slave Narrative and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada; Chapter 5 Spiritual Renewal, Becoming Whole, and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow; Chapter 6 Accessing and Reinvigorating Ancestral and Spiritual Histories to Reach Wholeness in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters; Chapter 7 Becoming Aware/Mindful, Psychoanalytical Therapy, and Ntozake Shange's Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter; Chapter 8 Conclusion; Index
