TY - BOOK AU - Gruesser,John Cullen TI - Confluences: postcolonialism, African American literary studies, and the Black Atlantic SN - 0820326038 (alk. paper) AV - PS153.N5 G78 2005 U1 - 810.9/896073 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Athens PB - University of Georgia Press KW - Gates, Henry Louis, KW - Gilroy, Paul, KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - African Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - 20th century KW - Comparative literature KW - American and English KW - English and American KW - Postcolonialism KW - Atlantic Ocean Region KW - African Americans in literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - In literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-165) and index; Ch. 1; An overview : the black Atlantic as a bridge between postcolonial and African American literary studies --; Ch. 2; Postcolonial counter-discourse : Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul --; Ch. 3; Signifyin(g) : Walter Mosley, Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison --; Ch. 4; The black Atlantic : Harry Dean, Harriet Jacobs, Alice Walker N2 - "Confluences looks at the prospects for and the potential rewards of breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial studies. John Cullen Gruesser's study emphasizes the confluences among three major theories that have emerged in literary and cultural studies since the late 1970s: postcolonialism, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Signifyin(g), and Paul Gilroy's black Atlantic." "For readers who may not be well acquainted with one or more of the three theories, Gruesser provides concise introductions in the opening chapter. In addition, he urges those people working in post-colonial or African American literary studies to attempt to break down the boundaries that in recent years have come to isolate the two fields. Gruesser then devotes a chapter to each theory, examining one literary text that illustrates the value of the theoretical model, a second text that extends the model in a significant way, and a third text that raises one or more questions about the theory. His examples are drawn from the writings of Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Walter Mosley, Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison, Harry Dean, Harriet Jacobs, and Alice Walker."--BOOK JACKET UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004028321.html ER -