Bakhtin in African American Literary Theory

Hale, Dorothy J.

doi:10.1353/elh.1994.0014

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“…And all the while, the two voices are dialogically interrelated" (Bakhtin, 1981: 324). As Dorthy Hale has pointed out, what in Du Bois is Negro and White, is in Bakhtin author and character; and the (non-)parallelism between these two is deeply unsettling (Hale, 1994). Surely the author's relationship to the novel's characters is different from the Afro-American's relationship to the surrounding white society.…”

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Doubling: there’s no escape from terror/doubling: there’s an escape from commodification …?

Letiche

2016

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Purpose Commodification doubles self and work, life and object, uniqueness and standardization and art and management. For the artist, the unicity, beauty, inspiration and creativity of art is doubled in the sale, marketing, display, distribution and mass production of “art works”. Making art is intimate, personal and individual; selling art requires public display, pleasing the all important customer(s) and dealing with many sorts of in-betweens. What commodification is on the artist/art work level is doubling on the I/me, self/persona, private/public and in-group/out-group level. This paper aims to examine the commodification and doubling in the case of the Gee’s Bend quilt makers. The quilts foreshadowed the modernist aesthetic and are of the highest aesthetic quality. But, they were made in a traditional rural society by very poor, uneducated black women. The quilts were not made to be sold but were dedicated to familial remembrance and to immediate aesthetic pleasure. But now that they are on display: is escape from commodification possible? Design/methodology/approach Reprint for special issue. Findings Doubling, in the original article below, was tendentious but artistically and politically to be overcome; doubling currently seems much more ominous, omnipresent and out of control. Signifyin(g) has become bomb throwing. Present day doubling apparently produces terror and not just commodification. Originality/value Invited for publication.

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2016

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“…As Hale (1994) has pointed out, what in Du Bois is Negro and White, is in Bakhtin author and character; and the (non-)parallelism between these two is deeply unsettling. Surely the author's relationship to a novel's characters is different from the Afro-American's relationship to the surrounding white society.…”

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2009

Society and Business Review

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to pursue the themes of feminine identity, doubling and (in)visibility; first in terms of "signifyin(g)" as a cultural and literary strategy, and second, in terms of quilting seen from the fiction of Alice Walker to the quilting of Gee's Bend. In the background, there plays the relationship between art and commodification. Design/methodology/approach -The paper examines "commodification" and "doubling" in the case of the Gee's Bend quilt makers. The quilts foreshadow the modernist aesthetic and are of the highest aesthetic quality. They were made in a traditional rural society by very poor uneducated black women. The quilts were not made to be sold, but were dedicated to familial remembrance and to immediate aesthetic pleasure. Findings -Commodification doubles self and work, life and object, uniqueness and standardization, art and management. For the artist, the unicity, beauty, inspiration and creativity of art is doubled in the sale, marketing, display, distribution and mass production of "art works." Making art is intimate, personal and individual; selling art requires public display, pleasing the all-important customer(s) and dealing with many sorts of in-betweens. What "commodification" is on the artist/art work level, is "doubling" on the I/me, self/persona, private/public, and in-group/out-group level. Originality/value -The author proposes, from the example of quilt-making, a wide-ranging interrogation: "Is escape from commodification possible?"

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“…Wanneer die verband wat Afro-Amerikaanse literatuur-teoretici trek tussen "double-consciousness" en die Bakhtiniaanse konsep "dubbelstemmige diskoers" oftewel heteroglossia (laasgenoemde 'n manifestasie van eersgenoemde) (vgl. Hale, 1994) ook op die skryfwerk van Small toegepas word, word die analogic versterk. Die konsep "dubbelstemmige diskoers" verwys na another's speech in another's language, serving to express authorial intentions but in a refracted way".…”

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‘ons is nie halfnaaitjies nie/ons is Kaaps’: Die wroeging met identiteit by enkele swart Afrikaanse skrywers

Wyk

1997

Literator

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Wrestling with identity: some black Afrikaans writers
Notions of identity are major themes in black Afrikaans writing. This phenomenon is caused by the imperative for these writers to articulate a particular community's struggles, but is also caused by the critics' inclination to read the coloured community in these texts. This article looks at the constructs of identity in the work of three leading figures: S.V. Petersen, Adam Small and Patrick Petersen. The following trends are identified: adherence to the Afrikaner, Black Consciousness, communality with Afrikaans speakers, identifying with the rainbow nation. The article draws on post-colonial theory and current debates in South African society to evaluate these constructs

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Bakhtin in African American Literary Theory

Cited by 30 publications

References 26 publications

Doubling: there’s no escape from terror/doubling: there’s an escape from commodification …?

Doubling: there’s no escape from terror/doubling: there’s an escape from commodification …?

Doubling: there's an escape from commodification ...?

‘ons is nie halfnaaitjies nie/ons is Kaaps’: Die wroeging met identiteit by enkele swart Afrikaanse skrywers

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