Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-183) and index.
Contents
Defining Calibanic discourse in the Black male novel and Black male culture -- The conscious and unconscious dimensions of Calibanic discourse thematized in Philadelphia fire -- The thematized black voice in John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle killing and Reuben -- Clarence Major's quest to define and liberate the self and the Black male writer -- Charles Johnson's response to the "Caliban's dilemma" -- Calibanic discourse in postmodern and non-postmodern Black male texts -- Ralph Ellison and the literary background of contemporary Black male postmodern writers -- The "special edge" tension between the conscious and unconscious in the contemporary Black male postmodern novel.
