How Long to Read Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives

How Long Does it Take to Read Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 42 minutes to read Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives by W. Lawrence Hogue

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Description

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory. This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation of the African American as deviant other. After surveying African American history and cultural politics, W. Lawrence Hogue provides original and insightful readings of six experimental/postmodern African American texts: John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire; Percival Everett’s Erasure; Toni Morrison’s Jazz; Bonnie Greer’s Hanging by Her Teeth; Clarence Major’s Reflex and Bone Structure; and Xam Wilson Cartiér’s Muse-Echo Blues. Using traditional cultural and western forms, including the blues, jazz, voodoo, virtuality, radical democracy, Jungian/African American Collective Unconscious, Yoruba gods, black folk culture, and black working class culture, Hogue reveals that these authors uncover spaces with different definitions of life that still retain a wildness and have not been completely mapped out and trademarked by normative American culture. Redefining the African American novel and the African American outside the logic, rules, and values of western binary reason, these writers leave open the possibility of psychic liberation of African Americans in the West. W. Lawrence Hogue is John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of several books, including The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History, also published by SUNY Press.

How long is Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives?

Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives by W. Lawrence Hogue is 341 pages long, and a total of 85,591 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 47 minutes to read Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives aloud.

What Reading Level is Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives?

Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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