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Disforming The American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular
Disforming The American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular
by Ronald A.T. Judy
University of Minnesota Press, 1993 Paper: 978-0-8166-2057-9 Library of Congress Classification PS366.A35J83 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9896073
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Abbreviations Used in Citations of Kant's Work
Foreword
Lubiano,
Wahneema
1
Introduction: Critique of Incorporation
Part I.
Writing Being: The Slave Narrative as the Original Text
2
Critique of American Enlightenment: The Problem with the Writing of Culture
Revolution in Historiography
Mapping Signifyin(g)
3
Writing Culture in the Negro: Grammatology of Civil Society and Slavery
The Grammar of Civility in the New World
The Horrible Labor of Self-recognition
Writing Culture as Nonrecuperable Negativity
4
Critique of Genealogical Deduction: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and the (Dis)Formation of Canon Formation
