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A Case of Mis-Taken Identity: Detective Undercurrents in Recent African American Fiction (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Band 9) - Hardcover

Lock, Helen

 
9780820423821: A Case of Mis-Taken Identity: Detective Undercurrents in Recent African American Fiction (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Band 9)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0820423823 ISBN 13: 9780820423821
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

The detective story, staple of Western popular culture, has undergone a transformation in recent African American fiction. In the work of Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, and Ralph Ellison, among others, a pattern of detection emerges which has its roots in African mythology and aesthetics. The traditionally marginal figure of the victim here takes center stage, and the investigation focuses not on «whodunit?» but on how to undo it: how to invalidate the victimization by resurrecting the victim as a fully autonomous, de-marginalized figure.

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The Author: Helen Lock is an assistant professor of English at Northeast Louisiana University. She received her B.A. from the University of Liverpool, England, and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She has previously published on Ishmael Reed and other contemporary American writers.

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Verlag
Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0820423823
ISBN 13 
9780820423821
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
156
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