Towards Post-Blackness : A Critical Study of Rita Dove's Poetry

Lekha Roy

ISBN 10: 1636671780 / ISBN 13: 9781636671789

Published by Peter Lang, 2023

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The book is a detailed introduction to Post-Blackness as a literary aesthetic, tracing its emergence to the philosophical movement that defined itself in the visual arts towards the end of the twentieth century. Aiming to redefine African American identity in a postethnic era, it highlights the gaps in the metanarrative of history through a reformulation of visual images in the memory as signifiers with their related associations to historical trauma. Stating that the reformulation of identity needs a decentering of race, the study follows Rita Dove as she traces the path to this reformulation in her volumes of poetry to initiate a Hegelian progression towards a post-racial freedom to expand contours to redefine Blackness. Pointing out that poetry is perhaps the best vehicle to initiate this transition of the philosophy from the visual arts to the sphere of the literary, the book follows Dove's reformulation of race as a spatio-temporal domain of existence, and language as lived space. Isolating signifiers to reformulate their associations with sites of historical trauma in the memory, Roy traces how Dove deconstructs history, myth, and music to arrive at a moment that is both post-racial and post-historical.This book can be useful to students of African American literature at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as to doctoral scholars working on race studies and contemporary African American literature.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Towards Post-Blackness : A Critical Study of Rita Dove's Poetry
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1636671780
• ISBN 13: 9781636671789
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 155H x 17D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 472 grams

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Synopsis

The book is a detailed introduction to Post-Blackness as a literary aesthetic, tracing its emergence to the philosophical movement that defined itself in the visual arts towards the end of the twentieth century.

About the Author

Lekha Roy is an academic, writer, and critic based in India. She received her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, and has published several articles on race, trauma, and power relations. Her work focuses on the role of language and images in the dynamics of identity formation, with special emphasis on changing contours of the personal and the political. Lekha Roy can be reached at lekharoy91@gmail.com.