Reading Multiple Consciousness
Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 15 December 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781666960730
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages106 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Weight 331 g
- Language English 612
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Short description:
Through close readings of literary texts by Camara Laye to Ata Aidoo, via Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, this book re-evaluates the issue of double consciousness originally raised by W.E.B. DuBois and, in doing so, problematize the role of the intellectuals in relation to their community.
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For over a century, the intellectual debate of scholars from African descent has been dominated by the idea of double consciousness spearheaded by W.E.B. DuBois. Interestingly, with many years of vexatious issues of the encounter between the West and Africa, many scholars approached the debate on the basis of the consciousness of the Self and the Other. However, this idea seems to overlook the multiplicities of being black/white. Reading Multiple Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity suggests a different approach to the issue by taking more steps beyond double consciousness. It enriches the debate over race literature and colonization as it offers another way of reading texts. This book proposes that the complexity of postmodern identity is more accurately described by a theory of multiple consciousness. This study arises out of the necessity of a more nuanced theoretical framework for a younger generation of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic, a conceptual approach that does justice to the complexity of their experience.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword: Beyond the Self/Other Binary, Kristina Marie Darling
Introduction
Chapter One: Multiple Consciousness: Laye Camara's The Dark Child and Richard Wright's Black Boy
Chapter Two: Audience, Double-Consciousness, and African Teachers of American Literature
Chapter Three: A Hungry Man is a Negro Man: Racializing Poverty in Richard Wright's Black Boy
Chapter Four: The Weakness of Power in Richard Wright's Native Son: Lesson Learned in the Context of American Exceptionalism
Chapter Five: The Black Man's Construction of his Own Invisibility in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Chapter Six: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting: Vital Steps at the Heart of the Harlem Renaissance
Conclusion: The Poetry of Langston Hughes: An Exceptional Critical Realism
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