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"A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature"--Provided by publisher.

כותר Habitations of the veil : metaphor and the poetics of black being in African American literature / Rebecka Rutledge Fisher.
מהדורה 1st ed.
מוציא לאור Albany, New York : State University of New York Press
שנה 2014
הערות Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר ""Contents""
""Acknowledgments""
""Introduction: The Poetics of Being Black""
""A Question of Black Being""
""I: Inhabiting the Veil: On Black Being""
""1 Being and Metaphor""
""A Philosophy of Ordinary Black Being: Hurston�s “Characteristics of Negro Expression�""
""2 African American Philosophy and the Poetics of Black Being""
""Crafting a Poetics of Black Being: Du Bois�s Philosophical Example""
""Whither Blackness? Du Bois, Black Culture, and the Contemporaneity of Black Being""
""II: The Poetics of Black Being Before and After Du Bois""
""3 Being and Becoming: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African""""The Rhetoric of the Image: Being and Becoming in Equiano�s Use of Portraiture""
""Becoming and Belonging: National Desire and Spiritual Being in Equiano�s Time""
""Hope in Narrative: Equiano�s Biblical Turn""
""Phases of Being: Biblical Metaphorics in Equiano�s Narrative of Becoming""
""Exile""
""Freedom and the Liminal""
""Abjection""
""Faith""
""Conversion and Salvation""
""Actuation""
""An Actuated Being""
""4 Remnants of Memory: Metaphor and Being in Frances E. W. Harper�s Sketches of Southern Life""""The Evolution of Harper�s Vernacular Poetry""
""Between Metaphor and Black Being: Aunt Chloe�s Structure of Poetic Memory""
""5 A Technology of Modern Black Being: “The Conservation of Races� as a Critical Ontology of Race""
""Being in the Occasion of Discourse: “Conservation""
""A Technology of Black Being: “The Conservation of Races� as the Contested “Mediation by which We Understand Ourselves�""
""The Interpretation of Black Historicity: Reading “Conservation� in Context""""“Conservation� and the Hermeneutics of Race""
""6 Habitations of the Veil: Souls""
""Incipit and Excipit""
""Poem and Paratext: The African American Spiritual and the Strivings of Black Being""
""Inspiriting Time: The Spiritual and the Ontology of the Slave""
""Metaphors of Perceiving, Knowing, and Mourning: “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,� “Of the Dawn of Freedom,� and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others""
""Metaphors of Journeying and Insight: “Of the Meaning of Progress,� “Of the Wings of Atalanta,� and “Of the Training of Black Men""""Metaphors of the Temporal and the Atemporal""
""The Fundamental Mythopoetics of Metaphor in African American Religion""
""The Soul�s Biography: Metaphors of Transition and Transcendence""
""Navigating the Undulating Waters of Being: The Spirituals and the Possibilities of Metaphor""
""7 Symbolic Wrights: The Poetics of Being Underground""
""Incipit""
""Mapping Black Ontology and Black Freedom: “Blueprint for Negro Writing� in Context""
""Being Underground""
סדרה SUNY Series, Philosophy and Race
היקף החומר 1 online resource (444 p.)
שפה אנגלית
שנת זכויות יוצרים ©2014
מספר מערכת 997010714767305171
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