Habitations of the Veil: Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature

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Index 407 Academy. See American Negro Academy Acts of the Apostles, 91, 99, 128, 129, 135, 375n29 Addison, Joseph, 96, 112–14, 142, 374n18 aesthetic tradition, African American, 60, 292 aesthetics, 23, 36, 46, 50, 145–46, 376n6. See also specific topics Black Aesthetic, 57–58, 325, 326, 328 Black Arts, 159 Africa Hegel on, 61, 75, 197–99, 202, 382n17 slavery in, 198–99 African Blood Brotherhood, 329 Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (Turner), 364n14 “Afro-Americanitude,” 210 Agamben, Giorgio, 143, 157–58, 166, 169, 309, 377n12, 379n29 agape, 338, 342, 345, 346, 391n7 agency and action in African American philosophy, 73, 74 Du Bois and, 75, 80, 173, 247, 267, 279 embodied, 33, 81 Hortense Spillers and, 80, 81, 173 Olaudah Equiano and, 89, 145 Richard Wright and, 287, 309, 319, 386n1 slave narrative and, 60 allegory Frederic Jameson on, 115 and The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois), 224, 241, 251, 279 Allegory of the Cave (Plato), 299 American Festival of Negro Arts (AFNA), 326 American Negro Academy (ANA), 172, 178, 180, 183, 186, 194, 200–201, 203, 204, 207, 240, 292, 380n2 analogy, 17, 18, 26, 316. See also metaphor(s) Anderson, Benedict, 205, 207 aphasia, 40–41 Appiah, K. Anthony, 178–79, 204, 380 Aptheker, Herbert, 65, 325–26, 328, 380n2 Aristotle Alexander Pope and, 364n15 Clive Cazeaux and, 16 on democracy, 330 Homer and, 17, 25, 364n15 on metaphor, 12, 16–21, 23, 25, 26, 48–49, 116, 218, 279, 286 on nature, 278–79 Paul Ricoeur on, 48–49 Poetics, 17, 18, 23, 25, 48, 49, 175, 286 408 Index Aristotle (continued) poetry and, 25, 364n15 on rhetoric, 48–49. See also The Rhetoric and Poetics of Aristotle simile and, 17, 18, 20, 364n18 on technê, 48, 49 Armstrong, Louis, 337 Arthur, King, 263, 272–75. See also Idylls of the King Aunt Chloe poems/Aunt Chloe cycle, 144–50, 153–56, 159–71, 196, 289 Christianity and, 289 metaphor, black being, and Aunt Chloe’s structure of poetic memory, 156–69 narrative structure, 158, 159 voting and, 196 Austin, J. L., 181–82 autobiography. See also specific autobiographies the historical, metaphorical effect of, 116 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The (Johnson), 21–22, 28, 290, 327–28 Baker, Houston A., Jr., 37, 79, 327, 339, 349, 350, 363n12, 387n1 Baker, Ray Stannard, 202 Bakieva, Gulnara, 77 baptism, 297 of blacks, 374n24 Jesus Christ and, 256, 276, 390n17 metaphors of, 256, 276, 297, 304 Olaudah Equiano’s, 119, 125 Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 256–59, 277 Barthes, Roland, 97–98 Beaufret, Jean, 10, 362n5 Beckett, Samuel, 24 being. See also black being; specific topics defined, 9, 36 metaphors of, 8–9, 12, 89, 91, 96, 105–6, 160, 179. See also metaphor(s): being and navigating the undulating waters of, 278–80 in the occasion of discourse, 179–85 terminology, 9 Being and Race (Johnson), 47–48, 51, 53 Being-in-the-world, 7–11, 36, 74, 90, 283, 306, 317 Bellamy, Edward, 200 Benezet, Anthony, 116, 119, 125 Bhabha, Homi, 101, 361n2 Bible, 91–93, 98–101, 116–25, 129, 134, 135, 138–42, 163, 165, 237, 249–51, 254, 270–73, 278, 375n33, 390n17. See also Christianity; Equiano, Olaudah; Isaiah; Paul the Apostle; Word of God; specific books Frances Harper and, 288–89 terminology, 139, 237, 375n27 veils and the, 136, 137, 248, 250, 251 Biblical discourse, 95, 96, 98, 122, 142 Biblical metaphors, 90, 92, 95, 96, 100–101, 121, 141, 142, 150, 156, 163, 221, 250. See also under Equiano, Olaudah bio-political metaphors, 105, 117 Black Aesthetic/Black Arts aesthetics. See aesthetics black being. See also being; specific topics vs. black identity, 6–7 Du Bois, black culture, and the contemporaneity of, 76–86 and the meaning of being black, 204, 206–7, 215. See also Souls of Black Folk a philosophy of ordinary, 23–52 poetics of, 1–12 crafting a, 74–76 a question of, 7–12 black cultural nationalists, 324–25. See also black nationalists 409 Index black experience, 57 black historicity, 75 interpretation of. See “Conservation of Races”: historical context black identity. See identity Black Metropolis (Drake and Cayton), Richard Wright’s Introduction to, 281, 299, 304–5, 370n13, 389n12 black nationalism, 380n2. See also nationalism black folk culture and,284,291,294–95 defined, 267, 380n2 Du Bois and, 172, 174, 177, 184, 204–7, 209, 212, 266, 267, 285, 292...