"Tapestries of Time" and Afrofuturist Horizons in William Demby's King Comus

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1353/afa.2022.0023

Melanie Masterton Sherazi

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Abstract:William Demby's achievements as an innovator of Black experimental fiction are on full display in his final, posthumously published novel, King Comus, and warrant critical attention for their relevance to the temporal turn in Black studies and to the burgeoning transnational aesthetics of Afrofuturism. Demby's fiction both invites and refuses biographical readings; in King Comus, he playfully showcases the tension between the autobiographical and the fictional. Alongside the intimate and embodied, the novel brings together Demby's sustained interests in historical patterns and imbricated temporalities—from antiquity to the turn of the twenty-first century—which commingle without cohering in their ecstatic dynamism.

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“时间的挂毯”和威廉·登比的《科玛斯国王》中的非洲未来主义视野

摘要:威廉姆·登比作为黑人实验小说的创新者，在他死后出版的最后一部小说《科玛斯王》中充分展示了他的成就，并因其与黑人研究的时间转向和新兴的非洲未来主义跨国美学的相关性而得到了重要关注。登比的小说既邀请也拒绝传记读物;在《科玛斯之王》中，他戏谑地展示了自传体和虚构之间的张力。除了亲切感和具像感之外，这部小说还汇集了登比对历史模式和错综复杂的时间——从古代到二十一世纪之交——的持续兴趣，这些兴趣混合在一起，但却没有凝聚在他们欣喜若狂的活力中。

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AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW LITERATURE, AMERICAN-

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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.