Reading, writing, and re-writing : the black body in contemporary African-American literature
Through an examination of three contemporary African-American writers, this thesis seeks to explore the ways the black body is constructed through their negotiating of their own corporeal vulnerability to racial discourse. Turning to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, Claudia Rankine’s Citi...
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| description | Through an examination of three contemporary African-American writers, this thesis seeks to explore the ways the black body is constructed through their negotiating of their own corporeal vulnerability to racial discourse. Turning to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, this thesis will examine the ways in which these writers have attempted to craft the black body as a site of challenge to these discourses, and how it, even in its failure, still engenders new ways of thinking about blackness. If racism is a rhetoric that has been written upon the black body, I argue that contemporary African-American writers, in complicating the relationship between the reader and the black writer, re-negotiate the power dynamics involved in the reading and writing of black bodies to engage in an unceasing re-writing of it. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/738602020-10-28T02:02:06Z Reading, writing, and re-writing : the black body in contemporary African-American literature Djawoto, Olivia Kevin Andrew Riordan School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature Through an examination of three contemporary African-American writers, this thesis seeks to explore the ways the black body is constructed through their negotiating of their own corporeal vulnerability to racial discourse. Turning to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, this thesis will examine the ways in which these writers have attempted to craft the black body as a site of challenge to these discourses, and how it, even in its failure, still engenders new ways of thinking about blackness. If racism is a rhetoric that has been written upon the black body, I argue that contemporary African-American writers, in complicating the relationship between the reader and the black writer, re-negotiate the power dynamics involved in the reading and writing of black bodies to engage in an unceasing re-writing of it. Master of Arts (HSS) 2018-04-17T07:13:59Z 2018-04-17T07:13:59Z 2018 Thesis Djawoto, O. (2018). Reading, writing, and re-writing : the black body in contemporary African-American literature. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73860 10.32657/10356/73860 en 106 p. application/pdf |
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