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
- 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
- Crossing Jea's Bridge
- Kant and the Critique of the Pure Negro
- Who You Callin' Black and Stupid?
- Hypokrisis of the Negro Class
- Unbestimmungkeit Wortbestimmung: Designating Indeterminacy
- Immaterial Referentiality
- Part II.
- The Indeterminate Narrative of the African American Slave: A Negative History of Making Time in Arabic
- 5
- Africa as a Paralogism: The Task of the Ethnologists
- Kebe's Exposition
- Tinbuktu the (In)transcribable
- Viral Heterography
- 6
- Designating Ben Ali's Manuscript Arabic
- 7
- Reading the Sign's Indeterminate Corpora
- Indeterminacy in 'ilm-ul-kalām
- Critique of Lexicography: Writing ('ujima)
- 8
- Critique of Hypotyposis: The Inhuman Significance of Ben Ali's Diary
- Epilogue Thought After: Thinking Heterography
- Notes
- Index
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