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The "dark heathenism" of the American novelist Ishmael Reed : African voodoo as American literary hoodoo

Title
The "dark heathenism" of the American novelist Ishmael Reed : African voodoo as American literary hoodoo / Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure ; with a preface by Jerome Klinkowitz.
Author
Mvuyekure, Pierre-Damien.
Publication
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2007.

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xvi, 301 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Reed, Ishmael, 1938- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Reed, Ishmael, 1938- > Aesthetics
  • Vodou in literature
  • African Americans in literature
  • African American aesthetics
  • Aesthetics, African
  • Postcolonialism in literature
  • Cultural pluralism in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index.
Contents
Neo-hoodooism : post-colonial textual resistance, African diaspora re-connection, and multicultural poetics -- The free-lance pallbearers : colonial mimicry and "adulteration of her tongue" -- Yellow back radio broke-down : "scatting arbitrarily" and blowing like Charlie "Bird" Parker : hoodoo be-bop western -- Mumbo jumbo : "profaning western sacred words" and "beating them on the anvil of boogie woogie" -- The last days of Louisiana Red : "the wretched of the earth" -- Flight to Canada : hoodoo writing as a "pièce de résistance" -- The terrible twos and The terrible threes : ecological imperialism, Christmas blues, reggae, and calypso -- Reckless eyeballing : writing post-coloniality and African American women's feminist fictions -- Japanese by spring : re/writing American orientalism and the metonymic function of Japanese and Yoruba.
Call Number
Sc E 07-807
ISBN
  • 9780773454408
  • 0773454403
LCCN
2007007443
OCLC
85766665
Author
Mvuyekure, Pierre-Damien.
Title
The "dark heathenism" of the American novelist Ishmael Reed : African voodoo as American literary hoodoo / Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure ; with a preface by Jerome Klinkowitz.
Imprint
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index.
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Research Call Number
Sc E 07-807
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