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Louis, Yvette.

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Body language: The slave body and the word in African diaspora literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Body language: The slave body and the word in African diaspora literature./
Author:	Louis, Yvette.
Description:	176 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2192.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-06A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3136695
ISBN:	049683891X

Body language: The slave body and the word in African diaspora literature.
Louis, Yvette.

Body language: The slave body and the word in African diaspora literature. - 176 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2192.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2004.

This thesis, entitled Body Language: The Slave Body and the Word in African Diaspora Literature proposes that the African diaspora literary subject recuperates identity through language. These particular uses of language coincide with an aesthetics paradigm all its own that arises out of the material experiences of the African slave. Through close reading of modern African diaspora narrative, poetry, and drama, as well as their narrative antecedents, my thesis argues that representations of the black body within this tradition take advantage of a correlation between the material presence of the slave body as a commodified object and the uses of language as a system of conventional signs to enact the formation of an African diaspora literary subject. The construction of the slave body as a commodity by the system of slavery paradoxically permitted the slave's self-consciousness of herself as an object. This privileged access to genuine experiential knowledge of the commodity nature of her society enabled the formerly enslaved subject to read the objectified body as an order of signs similar to language. This presupposition then makes the parallel between the material presence of the slave body as a symbolic object and language as a system of signifying symbols a space at which the possibility for the construction of the post-slavery identity through the speech act becomes manifest. The African diaspora subject, by manipulating the order of signs that is language, became the agent for the construction of a subject position and the creation of identity. This thesis posits that evidence of the creation of a discursive subject can be found in the modern literary production of the African diaspora throughout the Americas, with an emphasis on literature of the United States and the Caribbean, written in English, Spanish, and French.

ISBN: 049683891XSubjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Body language: The slave body and the word in African diaspora literature.
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