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Runaway Genres by Yogita Goyal;

Author:Yogita Goyal; [Goyal, Yogita] , Date: July 9, 2020 ,Views: 202

Runaway Genres by Yogita Goyal;

Author:Yogita Goyal; [Goyal, Yogita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT004040 Literary Criticism / American / African American
Publisher: New York University Press


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Talking Books (Talking Back)

The history of blackness is testament to the fact that objects can and do resist.

—Fred Moten, In the Break

“The trope of the Talking Book is the ur-trope of the Anglo-African tradition.” So declares Henry Louis Gates Jr. in a powerful effort to create an immanent theory of an African American literary tradition in The Signifying Monkey.1 The trope originates toward the end of the eighteenth century with James Gronniosaw’s A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself:



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