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

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

Roy, Lekha
Steinberg, Shirley R.

Hardcover

Series: Counterpoints, Book 543

PhilosophyPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1636671780
ISBN13: 9781636671789
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Nov 9 2023
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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