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I want to address the first topic of this conference in three parts: first, I want to present a parable about canon-formation at crucial moments of cultural liminality in the black tradition, a parable in which the figures of Alexander Crummell, John C. Calhoun, Greg Tate, and Wole Soyinka play their parts.
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expressive cultural theory, imagistic fields, enabling allegory, free storytelling, performed blackness, black autobiography, black selfhood, black autobiographers, black biography, black poetics, felicitous images, black poetry, black feminist critics, black discourse, black feminist criticism, black women novelists, black criticism, black fiction, black women writers, black canon, black difference, black literature
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New York, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, United States, West Indian, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Barbara Smith, Hortense Spillers, Arnold Rampersad, University of Chicago Press, University of Illinois Press, Alexander Crummell, Houston Baker, Invisible Man, James Weldon Johnson, Ralph Ellison, William Andrews, Black Fire, Did John's Music Kill Him, The Bluest Eye, William Wells Brown
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