Playing along the Spectrum of Reminiscence: Rewriting Slavery in Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale
| المصدر: | آداب وإنسانيات |
|---|---|
| الناشر: | الجمعية التونسية للدراسات الأدبية والإنسانية |
| المؤلف الرئيسي: | Abid, Imene (Author) |
| المجلد/العدد: | ع17,18 |
| محكمة: | نعم |
| الدولة: |
تونس |
| التاريخ الميلادي: |
2024
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| الصفحات: | 33 - 51 |
| DOI: |
10.47517/1916-000-017.018-007 |
| ISSN: |
2286-5705 |
| رقم MD: | 1453973 |
| نوع المحتوى: | بحوث ومقالات |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
| قواعد المعلومات: | AraBase, HumanIndex |
| مواضيع: | |
| كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية: |
Neo-Slave Narratives | Ontology of Play | Irony | Nostalgia | The Already-Written
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| رابط المحتوى: |
| المستخلص: |
This paper examines how Charles Johnson’s novel Oxherding Tale (1982), one of the most critically acclaimed African American neo-slave narratives, rewrites slavery and revisits the literary and historiographic pasts. Building on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Wolfgang Iser’s postulations on the ontology of play, it argues that the novel’s recalling of the past is characterized by a dynamic interplay between irony and nostalgia, where these seemingly opposing forces converge and blur into one another. The novel carves a literary space where established influences inform, but never constrain, its unique voice. Ultimately, Oxherding Tale will be assessed as a protean performance of genre that illuminates and responds to its author’s repeated calls for the universalization of African American fiction and the liberation of black imagination from restricting immersion in antebellum history. |
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| ISSN: |
2286-5705 |
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