The Disalienating Realism of William Attaway’s Blood on the Forge: Rethinking Black Chicago Renaissance Aesthetics

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/afa.2022.0003

Juan J. Rodriguez Barrera

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Abstract:Aiming to reopen discussions about what constituted literary realism in the Black Chicago Renaissance, this essay argues that William Attaway’s novel Blood on the Forge (1941) engages what Robert Young calls “disalienation,” a theoretical practice that “interpellates and then alienates the reader to produce new subjectivities.” I examine the theoretical relationship between sociological methodology and Marxist analysis within the movement: a relationship that, in Attaway’s case, did not produce a documentary work anchored in simple reflection, but rather served as the basis for a dialectical-materialist (or “disalienating”) realism that united both the concrete and abstract aspects of social experience.

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威廉·阿塔威《铁匠铺上的血》的异化现实主义:对芝加哥黑人文艺复兴美学的再思考

摘要：本文旨在重新讨论黑人芝加哥文艺复兴时期文学现实主义的构成，认为威廉·阿塔韦的小说《熔炉上的血》（1941）采用了罗伯特·杨所说的“否定”，这是一种“审问然后疏远读者以产生新的主体性”的理论实践。“我研究了运动中社会学方法论和马克思主义分析之间的理论关系：在阿塔韦的案例中，这种关系并没有产生一部以简单反思为基础的纪实作品，而是作为辩证唯物主义（或“否定”）现实主义的基础，这种现实主义将社会经验的具体和抽象方面结合起来。

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期刊介绍： As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.