A Case of Mis-Taken Identity: Detective Undercurrents in Recent African American Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820423821)

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A Case of Mis-Taken Identity: Detective Undercurrents in Recent African American Fiction

$47.95

A Case of Mis-Taken Identity: Detective Undercurrents in Recent African American Fiction

$47.95
Format: Hardcover
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The detective story, staple of Western popular culture, has undergone a transformation in recent African American fiction. In the work of Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, and Ralph Ellison, among others, a pattern of detection emerges which has its roots in African mythology and aesthetics. The traditionally marginal figure of the victim here takes center stage, and the investigation focuses not on whodunit? but on how to undo it: how to invalidate the victimization by resurrecting the victim as a fully autonomous, de-marginalized figure.

Author: Horst Daemmrich,Helen Lock
ISBN-10: 0820423823
ISBN-13: 9780820423821
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1994
Pages: 147
Format: Hardcover
By Horst Daemmrich
By Horst Daemmrich
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The Author: Helen Lock is an assistant professor of English at Northeast Louisiana University. She received her B.A. from the University of Liverpool, England, and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She has previously published on Ishmael Reed and other contemporary American writers.

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