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Author(s): L. Grossberg
Edition: 1
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 212
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 2
COPYRIGHT......Page 3
EDITORIAL STATEMENT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 7
INTRODUCTION......Page 9
References......Page 12
ARTICLES......Page 14
‘American Africanisms’......Page 15
Traditional world views......Page 19
The centrality of community......Page 21
The role of African ancestors......Page 24
African American intellectuals and academic questions......Page 26
Conclusion......Page 27
Notes......Page 28
References......Page 30
POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN TEACHING TONI MORRISON......Page 31
References......Page 50
THE HYPOCRISY OF COMPLETENESS: TONI MORRISON AND THE CONCEPTION OF THE OTHER......Page 53
Hybridity......Page 54
Postcolonial connections......Page 55
Language, identity, and the hypocrisy of completeness......Page 57
Notes......Page 59
References......Page 60
TONI MORRISON AND THE INDIVISIBILITY OF LANGUAGE......Page 62
References......Page 75
SULA AND THE DISCOURSE OF THE FOLK IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE......Page 76
A digression on Langston Hughes......Page 79
Sula and the folk paradigm of wishfulfillment......Page 86
The folk in-and-of-itself......Page 90
Contradictions in Morrison’s fictional world......Page 94
CONTRADICTORY VISIONS......Page 96
Notes......Page 97
References......Page 98
THE JAZZ AESTHETIC IN THE NOVELS OF TONI MORRISON......Page 100
References......Page 107
CONFRONTING THE ‘MASTER NARRATIVE’: THE PRIVILEGE OF ORALITY IN TONI MORRISON’S......Page 108
Orality and literacy: a brief overview of cultural conflicts......Page 109
Orality and literacy in The Bluest Eye......Page 113
Transforming Morrison’s language issues into teaching issues......Page 120
References......Page 124
‘Go een a kumbla’......Page 126
A blues book most excellent......Page 128
How do you like your pedagogy?: Blackened!......Page 132
‘Out of the kumbla’......Page 138
Notes......Page 139
References......Page 144
RE-MEMBERING THE MOTHER TONGUE(S): TONI MORRISON, JULIE DASH AND THE LANGUAGE OF PEDAGOGY......Page 147
Why focus on trauma and terror, and testimony to it?......Page 148
Newly born(e) languages......Page 149
Translating the (body) memory......Page 151
Translating and testifying through literature......Page 153
Giving (and taking) testimony to histories of trauma......Page 156
Crises of reading; crisis in the classroom......Page 157
‘The maternal metaphor’......Page 159
‘Oh, Mama’......Page 163
Forgotten languages reborn(e)......Page 164
(Un)common sense in common......Page 167
Is there a teacher in this text?......Page 169
Notes......Page 170
References......Page 172
‘YOU ARE YOUR OWN BEST THING’: TEACHING TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED USING QUESTION-HYPOTHESIS-QUESTIONS (QHQS)......Page 174
The teacher, the class, and the question-hypothesis-questions (qhqs)......Page 175
Situating Beloved in the class......Page 177
Readings in three sessions......Page 184
Analysis of Trevard’s class......Page 186
Conflictual alliances......Page 188
Notes......Page 189
References......Page 190
REVIEWS......Page 192
‘DREAMING IDENTITIES’......Page 193
PRODUCING CULTURE: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN TEXTS......Page 197
NOVEL ADULTERY?......Page 203
References......Page 206
THE NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF AUSTRALIA......Page 207
References......Page 211
COMIC CUTS......Page 212
Notes on Contributors......Page 216
Other journals in the field of cultural studies......Page 217
