Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism,New

Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism,New

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Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in AfricanAmerican literature. Dubey argues that for AfricanAmerican studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy.Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly AfricanAmerican strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the facetoface communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression

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