By reviewing the historical and literary interconnections of the rituals of exorcism, Harris opens up the hidden psyche--the soul--of black American writers.
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By reviewing the historical and literary interconnections of the rituals of exorcism, Harris opens up the hidden psyche--the soul--of black American writers.
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Very Good jacket. Bloomington. 1984. Indiana University Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0253319951. 222 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literary Criticism Literature African American. DESCRIPTION-Incidents of white people lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people have had a powerful impact on the literary work of black men and women writers since 1853. Black writers from Charles Waddell Chesnutt to Sutton Griggs, from Paul Laurence Dunbar to James Weldon Johnson, from Richard Wright to James Baldwin, and from Langston Hughes to Ralph Ellison have graphically portrayed these tragic scenes in their writings. In doing so, Trudier Harris claims, they seem to be acting out a communal role-a perpetuation of an oral tradition bent on the survival of the race. Reviewing the historic al literature of ritual violence prevalent in Afro-American life and culture, Harris believes white Americans were performing a rite of exorcism designed to eradicate the ‘black beast' from their midst, or, at the very least, to render him powerless and emasculated. This exorcism was the result of such offenses as daring to look at or speak to a white person, wearing fancy clothes, having too much education, slapping a white person, or killing a white person. However, the most vindictive and gruesome retaliation came for presumed sex crimes by black men-the ultimate taboo. Harris probes the recurrent fear of castration and the various levels of emasculation-psychological, political, social, and physical-that persist as a major theme in black male writers' work. Black male writers, much more than black women writers, draw upon the historical records of ritualized violence. Harris probes the reasons why black writers have persisted in presenting these brutal scenes. She asks: ‘How much is voluntary? How much is expected? How much is racial memory? How much is political? How much is true substance of art? How much is personal fear? How much is confrontation? How much is it their own form of exorcism? ' She shows how more recent black writers like John Wideman, David Bradley, and Toni Morrison have attempted to reverse the ritual or go beyond it. EXORCISING BLACKNESS demonstrates that the closeness and intensity of black people's historical experiences sometimes overshadow, frequently infuse and enhance, and definitely make richer in texture, the art of black writers. By reviewing the historical and literary interconnections of the rituals of exorcism Trudier Harris opens up the hidden psyche-the soul-of black American writers. inventory #17046.
