Corina Crisu | Rewriting | Polytropic Identities in the Postmodern African American Novel | Chapter VI | “I have Always Been a Good Girl” – (Re)Lettering the Body-Text in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple”

by Madalina Marcu | Jul 15, 2021 | Biblioteca online, Lectura & texte, Uncategorized

Each writer writes the missing parts to the other writer’s story. And the whole story is what I’m after (Walker 1983, 49). I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated, but vibrant, creative spirit that the black woman has inherited…...

Corina Crisu | Rewriting | Polytropic Identities in the Postmodern African American Novel | Chapter V | “Fiction-Made Characters” Parodying Stereotypes in Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada

by Madalina Marcu | Jul 15, 2021 | Biblioteca online, Lectura & texte

A lot of my books, people say, are all fiction, but Flight to Canada, and some of the rest of them, are based on research. So there’s fact there, too (Reed, in Martin 1983, 2). With myth-bending ingenuity, Reed merges history, fantasy, political reality, and high...

Corina Crisu | Rewriting | Polytropic Identities in the Postmodern African American Novel | Chapter IV | Remembering the Unspeakable in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”

by Madalina Marcu | Jul 15, 2021 | Biblioteca online, Lectura & texte

[I]f all the ramifications that the term [race] demands are taken seriously, the bases of Western civilization will require re-thinking. Thus, in spite of its implicit and explicit acknowledgement, “race” is still a virtually unspeakable thing (Morrison 1989, 9). When...

Corina Crisu | Rewriting | Polytropic Identities in the Postmodern African American Novel | Chapter III | “A Cultural Mongrel” Transatlantic Mediations in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage

by Madalina Marcu | Jul 15, 2021 | Biblioteca online, Lectura & texte

Apart from constituting the physical displacement of Africans from their homelands… [the Middle Passage] effectively transformed the cultures of Europeans and Africans alike, binding them in an uneven, yet symbiotic relationship. In other words, something new was...

Corina Crisu | Rewriting | Polytropic Identities in the Postmodern African American Novel | Chapter II | From Stereotypical to Polytropic Black Identities: Excavating Literature and History

by Madalina Marcu | Jul 15, 2021 | Biblioteca online, Lectura & texte, Uncategorized

[In contemporary African American literature] most importantly, black women themselves are projected as thinkers, feelers, human beings, not only used by others, but as conscious beings… They have culture, race, sex, sometimes situations in common, but they are not...

Corina Crisu | Rewriting | Polytropic Identities in the Postmodern African American Novel | Chapter I | Cultural and Theoretical Contexts: Rewriting, Revision, and Black Postmodernism

by Madalina Marcu | Jul 8, 2021 | Biblioteca online, Lectura & texte

The revival of ethnic consciousness as a major expression of the new pluralism and the deep tension created by the divergent process of acculturation (the assimilation of values of a common civil culture) and ethnification (the assertion of difference as a form of...