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Bakhtin in African American literary theory.
Johnson to other contemporary white feminists who theorize fiction written by African American women, see Elizabeth Abel, "Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation," Critical Inquiry 19 (1993): 470-98.
37 Johnson, 166, quoting Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Criticism in the Jungle," introduction to Black Literature and Literary Theory (New York: Methuen, 1984), 4, 8.
38 Johnson, 166.
39 Johnson, 166. The strident, moral voice of the former slave recounting, exposing, appealing, apostrophizing and above all remembering his ordeal in bondage is the single most impressive feature of a slave narrative. This voice is striking because of what it relates, but even more so because the slave's acquisition of that voice is quite possibly his only permanent achievement once he escapes and casts himself upon a new and larger landscape.
Robert B. Stepto(1)
Rather than a rigidly personalized form, the blues offer a phylogenetic recapitulation--a nonlinear, freely associative, nonsequential meditation--of species experience. What emerges is not a riled subject, but an anonymous (nameless) voice issuing from the black (w)hole.
Houston A. Baker, Jr.(2)
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