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metaphor and the poetics of Black being in African American literature
I Inhabiting the Veil: On Black Being -- 1 Being and Metaphor 15 -- A Philosophy of Ordinary Black Being: Hurston's "Characteristics of Negro Expression" 23 -- 2 African American Philosophy and the Poetics of Black Being 53 -- Crafting a Poetics of Black Being: Du Bois's Philosophical Example 74 -- Whither Blackness? Du Bois, Black Culture, and the Contemporaneity of Black Being 76 -- II The Poetics of Black Being Before and After Du Bois -- 3 Being and Becoming: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African 89 -- The Rhetoric of the Image: Being and Becoming in Equiano's Use of Portraiture 97 -- Hope in Narrative: Equiano's Biblical Turn 115 -- An Actuated Being 140 -- 4 Remnants of Memory: Metaphor and Being in Frances E.W. Harper's Sketches of Southern Life 143 -- The Evolution of Harper's Vernacular Poetry 148 -- Between Metaphor and Black Being: Aunt Chloe's Structure of Poetic Memory 156 -- 5 A Technology of Modern Black Being: "The Conservation of Races" as a Critical Ontology of Race 171 -- Being in the Occasion of Discourse: "Conservation," Metaphor, and the Historical Narrative of Race 179 -- A Technology of Black Being: "The Conservation of Races" as the Contested "Mediation by which We Understand Ourselves" 185 -- The Interpretation of Black Historicity: Reading "Conservation" in Context 189 -- "Conservation" and the Hermeneutics of Race 203 -- 6 Habitations of the Veil: Souls, Figure, Form 217 -- Incipit and Excipit 220 -- Poem and Paratext: The African American Spiritual and the Strivings of Black Being 224 -- Inspiriting Time: The Spiritual and the Ontology of the Slave 230 -- Metaphors of Perceiving, Knowing, and Mourning 232 -- Metaphors of Journeying and Insight 241 -- Metaphors of the Temporal and the Atemporal 250 -- The Fundamental Mythopoetics of Metaphor in African American Religion 259 -- "The Souls Biography: Metaphors of Transition and Transcendence 268 -- Navigating the Undulating Waters of Being: The Spirituals and the Possibilities of Metaphor 278 -- 7 Symbolic Wrights: The Poetics of Being Underground 281 -- Incipit 281 -- Mapping Black Ontology and Black Freedom "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in Context 288 -- Being Underground 296 -- 8 A Love Called Democracy: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 313 -- By Way of Conclusion 313 -- Speaking for the Beloved 318 -- Love's Habitation: Blackness, the Uncanny Maternal, and American Democracy 336 -- The Repression of the Black Maternal 340 -- Ihe Irresponsible Dreamer: Reveries of Sexual Love 346 -- Sacrificing Sexual Desire 355 -- Black Being's Moral of Love 359.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-406) and index.