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46 Cards in this Set
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novel |
fiction based storytelling, allow for authors to engage in dialogue regarding social issues |
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African animisim |
disrupted realism, spiritual elements to all beings, physical world is controlled and influence by supernatural forces |
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Nation |
large aggregates of people closely associated through additional factors including language, politics, culture, history and occupation of territory World Systems, Oppositional national, Anderson, Bhaba |
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World systems theory |
Nations as hegemonic constructs Economic divisions between core and periphery creates nations as rationalization of exploitation by the core |
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Oppositional nationalism |
Post-colonial construct of nation in which the parameters of nation focus on culture |
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Anderson Theory of Nation |
dominant nations are ideologically constructed and utilize technology to distribute and enforce constructions |
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Bhaba Theory of Nation |
nations arise from articulation of political thought and literary language |
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Cosmopolitan |
familiar/comfortable with diverse countries and cultures, Western citizen free of national attachments |
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Afropolitan |
a multidimensional African influenced by the Diaspora, transnational identity Critique: focuses on consumerism/style rather than political consciousness |
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Black Atlantic |
counter-culture to Western modernity |
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Black Diaspora |
global community of displaced people through forced exile- resistant to assimilation American cultural studies- evolved from Black power movement with goal of institutionalizing black literature |
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Social construct |
the perception and actualization of a society's concept of a particular experience influenced by laws, culture, etc. |
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slave narrative and narrative conventions |
biological and autobiographical depictions of slavery used as abolitionist propaganda
conventions: birth, parentage, family separation, pure africans, daily life, barriers to education, christian conversions, escape attempts, new names, reflections |
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Neoslaves narratives |
signifies slave narratives but revises or parodies elements of earlier texts Removes romanticism and undermines monolithic experience |
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Negritude movement |
focuses on black diaspora and rejection of colonial identity, re-appropriated term focusing on blackness from both a political and social perspective |
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Post-colonial texts |
centralize previously marginalized identities |
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Post-civil rights era literature |
Focus on individual Smith: expansion of literature Washington: reject literary conventions and violate African American lit |
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New Black Aesthetic |
Post-civil rights, publically criticizes black culture, focus on upper/middle class, second generation, Western education, cross genre and national boundaries, negative depictions of women |
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Post-race |
Frames race from 21st century perspective, combines generic forms, offers speculative realism, intertwines race and other constructs Dyson, Reid-Pharr, Taylor, Li |
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Dyson's theory of Post-race |
not the end of racism but destruction of monolithic constructions |
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Reid-Pharr's Post-Race |
Blackness is a contradiction, not a dogma |
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Taylor on Post-race |
period of time where future of race is unclear, end of race-based history, some theorists utilize racial speculation to understand a world constructed by racial theory |
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Modernism |
Between WWs Society is industrializing, urbanizing and secularizing Defining new truths, fragmented psyche, new centers Garvey, McKay, DuBois |
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Post-Modernism |
No center, multiplicity of voice/definitions/truths, no clear definition, relies on fragmentation and paradox, unreliable narration |
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New Negro movment |
new social class of blacks that moves away from classic racist stereotypes Self-aware and defensive |
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Harlem Renaissance |
'Propagandic' artistic movement to humanize black Americans Sponsored by white patronage |
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Use of narrative conventions |
establishes work as part of a particular literary community |
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Signifying |
characteristic of African American literature where text draws upon and revises a secondary text |
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Self-conceptions of Africa |
Disrupts primitivism, idealism and western constructions Acknowledges multi-faceted reality and specificity |
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Genealogy of blackness |
Essentialism or direct manifestations More recently: interactions with blackness is through surrogates which are evaluated based on perceptions of authenticity Gilroy |
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Gilroy+genealogy of blackness |
argues against essentialism and in favor of defining the black diaspora on the basis of cultural exchange (routes not roots) |
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Art as national identification |
Media and culture as sites of cultural signifiers Media/culture which originated as blackface become incorporated into the authentic performance of blackness |
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Performativity |
individual interacting with social constructions extends beyond gender to include ideology or nation |
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Concordance |
probability that a pair of individuals will share a characteristic based on the fact that they share another characteristic |
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S. Hall on cultural identity |
cultural identity is an unstable conception of identity not an essence but a positioning |
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DuBois |
color line, double consciousness Upper class, Western educated experience of blackness Defined race in sociological and historical terms |
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Double Consciousness |
exclusive to blackness, both positive and negative Awareness of white perception Feeling of two-ness Second sight |
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Booker T. Washington |
advocated for accumulation of practical skills and development of economic niches |
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Garvey |
not class focused- mass appeal Black political self-determination, self-governance, economic self-reliance, creation of black nation in Africa Racial segregation, UNIA parade, Black Star Line |
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Linneaus |
four racial categories with horizontal organization |
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Monogenesis |
Single origin for all of humanity, horizontal organization but those closer to Caucasus Mt.s (origin pt.) are more beautiful |
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18th century scientific understandings of race |
race is unstable and plastic, shaped by race laws |
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19th century scientific understandings of race |
post-abolition reorganization, polygenesis (races as species), race is associated with insurmountable characteristics, eugenics |
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Plot |
series of events that occur that allows the reader to chart the direction and goals of the characters |
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Lumpenproletariat |
removed from class consciousness, do not struggle for socioeconomic mobility |
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Primitivism |
does not mean uncivilized, subverts European/Western ideals |
