| Habitations of the Veil: Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature Contributor(s): Fisher, Rebecka Rutledge (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438449313 ISBN-13: 9781438449319 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 2013002463 |
| Series: SUNY Series, Philosophy and Race (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (1.76 lbs) 428 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Habitations of the Veil, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher uses theory implicit in W. E. B. Du Bois's use of metaphor to draw out and analyze what she sees as a long tradition of philosophical metaphor in African American literature. She demonstrates how Olaudah Equiano, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison each use metaphors to develop a critical discourse capable of overcoming the limits of narrative language to convey their lived experiences. Fisher's philosophical investigations open these texts to consideration on ontological and epistemological levels, in addition to those concerned with literary craft and the politics of black identity. |