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Ruffin, Kimberly Nicole.

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Territorial possibilities: Formal experimentation, psychic spaces, and African-American texts.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Territorial possibilities: Formal experimentation, psychic spaces, and African-American texts./
Author:	Ruffin, Kimberly Nicole.
Description:	145 p.
Notes:	Adviser: James C. Hall.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-07A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3019422
ISBN:	0493305343

Territorial possibilities: Formal experimentation, psychic spaces, and African-American texts.
Ruffin, Kimberly Nicole.

Territorial possibilities: Formal experimentation, psychic spaces, and African-American texts. - 145 p.

Adviser: James C. Hall.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001.

Loss and limitation characterize much of African-Americans' spatial history. Looking to secure territory for fuller expression of individual and collective being, African-American artists turn inward to psychic space. The two central questions of my project are: What psychic spaces do these artists inhabit and create? In addition, how is formal experimentation connected to their search for adequate territories? Combining cultural geography, spatial theory, African-Americanist, and gender analysis, I explore the links among formal experimentation and three territories: diaspora, inner/outer space, and narrative.

ISBN: 0493305343Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Territorial possibilities: Formal experimentation, psychic spaces, and African-American texts.
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520 $a Chapter 2, “Goin' to Ellison's and Hurston's Territory” explains how Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston function as “founding” voices that negotiate individual and collective experience of space. Their fiction and non-fiction provides for an aesthetic, thematic, and theoretical understanding of the psychic spaces I develop in later chapters.
520 $a Chapter 3, “Cooking Up Provincialism: Ntozake Shange's African Diasporic Cosmopolitanism,” explicates that while her work is grounded in African-American southern cultural traditions, Shange's transnational, multilingual, and multicultural writing, infused with references throughout the African diaspora, demands an ability to see beyond national borders and an awareness and action around the histories of exploitation and struggle around the world.
520 $a Chapter 4, “Inner/Outer Spaces of Black Masculinity,” details the interplay between inner and outer space as concepts in the work of various Black male musical artists. Sun Ra and George Clinton are tradition setters in the use of outer space as a territory which helps Black people cope with the upheaval of experience on earth. Numerous Hip Hop artists continue the outer space metaphor and extend the concept of inner or psychic space as another realm which can address territorial desire.
520 $a Chapter 5, “Hammerin' in the Bible: The Word and Black Narrative Space,” examines the way in which Black biblical interpretation illustrates the intermingling of oral and written culture in Black narrative space. Octavia Butler and John Edgar Wideman add to the longstanding tradition of enriching Black narrative space with Bible-influenced work. Their divergent responses to the Bible and storytelling invite new perspectives on the ways that people interact with the Bible and signify new vistas in Black narrative space.
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