Print version: Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951- Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013] viii, 331 pages ISBN 9781438448343 ISBN 9781438448350
Includes bibliographical references and index
Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett’s erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison’s jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer’s hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major’s reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier’s Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.