Habitations of the Veil : Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Poetics of Being Black -- A Question of Black Being -- I: Inhabiting the Veil: On Black Being -- 1 Being and Metaphor -- A Philosophy of Ordinary Black Being: Hurston's "Characteristics of Negro Expression" -- 2 African American Philosophy and the Poetics of Black Being -- Crafting a Poetics of Black Being: Du Bois's Philosophical Example -- Whither Blackness? Du Bois, Black Culture, and the Contemporaneity of Black Being -- 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 -- The Rhetoric of the Image: Being and Becoming in Equiano's Use of Portraiture -- Becoming and Belonging: National Desire and Spiritual Being in Equiano's Time -- Hope in Narrative: Equiano's Biblical Turn -- Phases of Being: Biblical Metaphorics in Equiano's Narrative of Becoming -- Exile -- Freedom and the Liminal -- Abjection -- Faith -- Conversion and Salvation -- Actuation -- An Actuated Being -- 4 Remnants of Memory: Metaphor and Being in Frances E. W. Harper's Sketches of Southern Life -- The Evolution of Harper's Vernacular Poetry -- Between Metaphor and Black Being: Aunt Chloe's Structure of Poetic Memory -- 5 A Technology of Modern Black Being: "The Conservation of Races" as a Critical Ontology of Race -- Being in the Occasion of Discourse: "Conservation -- A Technology of Black Being: "The Conservation of Races" as the Contested "Mediation by which We Understand Ourselves" -- The Interpretation of Black Historicity: Reading "Conservation" in Context -- "Conservation" and the Hermeneutics of Race -- 6 Habitations of the Veil: Souls -- Incipit and Excipit -- Poem and Paratext: The African American Spiritual and the Strivings of Black Being.

Inspiriting Time: The Spiritual and the Ontology of the Slave -- Metaphors of Perceiving, Knowing, and Mourning: "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," "Of the Dawn of Freedom," and "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others -- Metaphors of Journeying and Insight: "Of the Meaning of Progress," "Of the Wings of Atalanta," and "Of the Training of Black Men -- Metaphors of the Temporal and the Atemporal -- The Fundamental Mythopoetics of Metaphor in African American Religion -- The Soul's Biography: Metaphors of Transition and Transcendence -- Navigating the Undulating Waters of Being: The Spirituals and the Possibilities of Metaphor -- 7 Symbolic Wrights: The Poetics of Being Underground -- Incipit -- Mapping Black Ontology and Black Freedom: "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in Context -- Being Underground -- 8 A Love Called Democracy: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- By Way of Conclusion -- Speaking for the Beloved -- Love's Habitation: Blackness, The Uncanny Maternal, and American Democracy -- The Repression of the Black Maternal -- The Irresponsible Dreamer: Reveries of Sexual Love -- Sacrificing Sexual Desire -- Black Being's Moral of Love -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.

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