By Kimberly Nichele Brown

Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American ladies because the Nineteen Seventies have came across how you can flow past the "double attention" of the colonized textual content to improve a fit subjectivity that makes an attempt to disassociate black subjectivity from its connection to white tradition. Brown lines the emergence of this new recognition from its roots within the Black Aesthetic flow via vital milestones corresponding to the anthology The Black girl and Essence journal to the writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez.

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In 4an interview conducted by Van Grosse, Harold Cruse charges that the 5centrality that Du Bois continues to enjoy in African American stud6ies, largely due to his concept of double-consciousness, is a “manufac7tured” one: “Du Bois is a philosophical phony. That double-conscious8ness thing is a phony. It’s his double-consciousness. It’s philosophical 9romanticism” (“Interview with Harold Cruse” 297). Although he con10cedes that Du Bois is an important intellectual figure, Cruse believes it 11is problematic to overidealize Du Bois given that he was a northern and 12a “near-white mulatto” (297).

14Although what she writes is in the context of the nineteenth century, 15Peterson’s work is useful in reading more contemporary texts in that her 16approach to literature supplants the generalizing impulses of other con17temporary scholars of black literature. Implicating Gates and Houston 18Baker, among others, she writes: 19 20 I would argue that since so much of our history has yet to be recovered, 21 we are not yet in a position to theorize in a totalizing fashion about black 22 literary production, either by constructing a literary canon of masterpiece 23 texts, by formulating a black aesthetic based on the cultural matrix of the 24 blues, the vernacular, or folk expression, or more narrowly, by insisting 25 upon the existence of a transhistorical black feminist aesthetic.

Retaliatory Violence and the Rhetoric of Self-Conscious Manhood Sidonie Smith writes that “[t]he theme of violent self-expression, in which manhood is predicated on resistance to society and in which the individual’s violent self is a product of violence directed to that self by society, is prominent in the slave narrative” (Where I’m Bound 50). However, when looking at African American literary traditions, the rhetoric of violent self-defense and self-conscious manhood also often alludes to attempts to develop decolonized subjectivities on the part of African American characters.

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