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Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales
- Title
- Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales / Keith Cartwright.
- Author
- Cartwright, Keith, 1960-
- Publication
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2002.
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Details
- Description
- 270 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- American literature > African influences
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- African literature > Appreciation > United States
- American literature > History and criticism
- Gothic revival (Literature) > United States
- Fables, American > History and criticism
- African Americans in literature
- Slavery in literature
- Ethics in literature
- Africa > In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
- Includes bibliographic references (p. [241]-257) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. Epic impulses/narratives of ancestry -- Imperial mother wit, gumbo erotics: from Sunjata to The souls of Black folk -- Of root figures and buggy jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison -- Myth-making, mother-child-ness, and epic renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead -- pt. II. Bound cultures/the creolization of Dixie -- "Two heads fighting": African roots, geechee/gombo tales -- Creole self-fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "other fellow" -- Searching for spiritual soil: milk bonds and the "maumer tongue" -- pt. III. Shadows of Africans/gothic representations -- The spears of the party of the merciful: Senegambian Muslims, scriptural mercy, and plantation slavery -- Babo and bras coupé: malign machinations, gothic plots -- "Never once but like ripples": on boomeranging trumps, rememory, and the novel as medium.
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-688
- ISBN
- 0813122201 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2001002582
- OCLC
- 46918060
- Author
- Cartwright, Keith, 1960-
- Title
- Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales / Keith Cartwright.
- Imprint
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographic references (p. [241]-257) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-688