Habitations of the veil : metaphor and the poetics of Black being in African American literature /
"A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature"--Provided by publisher
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2014
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| Series: | SUNY series, philosophy and race.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Poetics of Being Black; A Question of Black Being; I: Inhabiting the Veil: On Black Being; 1 Being and Metaphor; A Philosophy of Ordinary Black Being: Hurston's "Characteristics of Negro Expression"; 2 African American Philosophy and the Poetics of Black Being; Crafting a Poetics of Black Being: Du Bois's Philosophical Example; Whither Blackness? Du Bois, Black Culture, and the Contemporaneity of Black Being; II: The Poetics of Black Being Before and After Du Bois.
- 3 Being and Becoming: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the AfricanThe Rhetoric of the Image: Being and Becoming in Equiano's Use of Portraiture; Becoming and Belonging: National Desire and Spiritual Being in Equiano's Time; Hope in Narrative: Equiano's Biblical Turn; Phases of Being: Biblical Metaphorics in Equiano's Narrative of Becoming; Exile; Freedom and the Liminal; Abjection; Faith; Conversion and Salvation; Actuation; An Actuated Being; 4 Remnants of Memory: Metaphor and Being in Frances E.W. Harper's Sketches of Southern Life.
- The Evolution of Harper's Vernacular PoetryBetween Metaphor and Black Being: Aunt Chloe's Structure of Poetic Memory; 5 A Technology of Modern Black Being: "The Conservation of Races" as a Critical Ontology of Race; Being in the Occasion of Discourse: "Conservation; A Technology of Black Being: "The Conservation of Races" as the Contested "Mediation by which We Understand Ourselves"; The Interpretation of Black Historicity: Reading "Conservation" in Context; "Conservation" and the Hermeneutics of Race; 6 Habitations of the Veil: Souls; Incipit and Excipit.
- Poem and Paratext: The African American Spiritual and the Strivings of Black BeingInspiriting Time: The Spiritual and the Ontology of the Slave; Metaphors of Perceiving, Knowing, and Mourning: "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," "Of the Dawn of Freedom," and "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others; Metaphors of Journeying and Insight: "Of the Meaning of Progress," "Of the Wings of Atalanta," and "Of the Training of Black Men; Metaphors of the Temporal and the Atemporal; The Fundamental Mythopoetics of Metaphor in African American Religion.
- The Soul's Biography: Metaphors of Transition and TranscendenceNavigating the Undulating Waters of Being: The Spirituals and the Possibilities of Metaphor; 7 Symbolic Wrights: The Poetics of Being Underground; Incipit; Mapping Black Ontology and Black Freedom: "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in Context; Being Underground; 8 A Love Called Democracy: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; By Way of Conclusion; Speaking for the Beloved; Love's Habitation: Blackness, The Uncanny Maternal, and American Democracy; The Repression of the Black Maternal; The Irresponsible Dreamer: Reveries of Sexual Love.
