Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban
With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype in the modern era depicting black men as slaves and savages who threaten civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects and themselves from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they often unconsciously retell the story, making their heroes into modern-day Calibans. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, Charles Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Trey Ellis, David Bradley, and Wesley Brown. He traces the Caliban legacy to early literary in
eBook, English, ©2001
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., ©2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (193 pages)
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Defining Calibanic discourse in the Black male novel and Black male culture
The conscious and unconscious dimensions of Calibanic discourse thematized in Philadelphia fire
The thematized black voice in John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle killing and Reuben
Clarence Major's quest to define and liberate the self and the Black male writer
Charles Johnson's response to the "Caliban's dilemma"
Calibanic discourse in postmodern and non-postmodern Black male texts
Ralph Ellison and the literary background of contemporary Black male postmodern writers
The "special edge" tension between the conscious and unconscious in the contemporary Black male postmodern novel
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