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Governing aesthetics: form and politics in Black hemispheric literature
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Martino, Ariel Fraser. Governing aesthetics: form and politics in Black hemispheric literature. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-h2s5-xn88

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TitleGoverning aesthetics: form and politics in Black hemispheric literature
NameMartino, Ariel Fraser (author); Mathes, Carter (chair); Shockley, Evie (member); Owens, Imani (member); Posmentier, Sonya (member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2021
Other Date2021-10 (degree)
SubjectAfrican literature, American literature, Caribbean literature, African American literature, Black literature, Caribbean literature, Hemispheric literature, Literary form, Literature and politics
Extent1 online resource (v, 267 pages)
DescriptionGoverning Aesthetics argues that literature provides a generative testing ground for theorizing the formation of political subjectivity. This is, in part, because the flexibility of literary form allows Black authors to balance and re-balance the calculus of inclusion in and diversion from nationalist paradigms. I read a range of authors from the United States and Caribbean, including C.L.R. James, Zora Neale Hurston, Angelo Herndon, Hosea Hudson, Nate Shaw, Jacques Roumain, Claude McKay, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Margaret Walker. These writers use literary forms like the novel, the autobiographical narrative, the lyric poem, and tragic drama that traditionally centralize a singular protagonist, adapting established forms in order to posit alternate models of political participation that challenge notions of liberal individualism. I look to texts that seem to value masculine exceptionality, uphold the tenets of Western Enlightenment, or challenge radical political praxis to argue that the authors present structural complications that are incipient theorizations of political alternatives. These theorizations provide more complete ideological and historical context to the gains and upheavals of the 1960s and, in returning to a historical moment when these ideas were still in formation, I uncover some assumptions that undergird them.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-h2s5-xn88
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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