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A Case of Mis-Taken Identity: Detective Undercurrents in Recent African American Fiction
Contributor(s): Daemmrich, Horst (Editor), Lock, Helen (Author)

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ISBN: 0820423823     ISBN-13: 9780820423821
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
OUR PRICE: $45.55  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: October 1994
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BISAC Categories:
- Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 813.087
LCCN: 93037318
Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature,
Physical Information: 147 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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The detective story, staple of Western popular culture, has undergone a transformation in recent African American fiction. In the work of Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, and Ralph Ellison, among others, a pattern of detection emerges which has its roots in African mythology and aesthetics. The traditionally marginal figure of the victim here takes center stage, and the investigation focuses not on -whodunit?- but on how to undo it: how to invalidate the victimization by resurrecting the victim as a fully autonomous, de-marginalized figure."
 
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