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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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- Description
- xvi, 301 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 07-807