| Writing the Subject: Bildung and the African American Text Contributor(s): Kester, Gunilla Theander (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820437271 ISBN-13: 9780820437279 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Lexile Measure: 1400 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 178 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study explores the difference between the African American and the European Bildungsroman. Theoretical and textual, it focuses on issues of subjectivity, gender, and history in maturation stories by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Charles Johnson, and Sherley Anne Williams. The comparative discussion of the African American tradition of self-representation, the European tradition of the Bildungsroman, and postmodernist notions of subjectivity elucidates fundamental traits of the African narrative of Bildung. |