The Politics of the Real: Jazz, Hip Hop, and Satire - Conceptions of Consciousness in the Twentieth Century African American Novel

Author

Peter Thomas Clavin

Year of Award

2009

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

Master of Arts (MA)

Degree Name

English (Literature)

Department or School/College

Department of English

Committee Chair

Kathleen Kane

Commitee Members

Robert Baker, Jeff Wiltse

Abstract

In the African American experience of the twentieth century, cultural modes of expression became the primary outlet for a politics of resistance, a politics of fulfillment, and a politics of transfiguration within the context of a modem Western nation-state that marginalized and discriminated against the African American subject through ideology and cultural hegemony. This collective African American experience is one based on a reality of life-threatening racial violence that has plagued African Americans from the earliest days of the New Republic.

Recommended Citation

Clavin, Peter Thomas, "The Politics of the Real: Jazz, Hip Hop, and Satire - Conceptions of Consciousness in the Twentieth Century African American Novel" (2009). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 10823.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/10823