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Folklore in New World Black fiction : writing and the oral traditional aesthetics

Title
Folklore in New World Black fiction : writing and the oral traditional aesthetics / Chiji Ak̥oma.
Author
Ak̥oma, Chiji.
Publication
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007.
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x, 162 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • American fiction > History and criticism
  • Literature and folklore > United States > History > 20th century
  • African American oral tradition
  • African Americans > Intellectual life
  • African Americans in literature
  • Folklore in literature
  • Hermeneutics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-158) and index.
Contents
Black oral performance and writing traditions in the New World -- Roy A. K. Heath and Guyanese anxiety lore -- Wilson Harris : dream worlds and the oral imagination -- "Something to figure in" : Toni Morrison and the complexities of oral narrativity -- "Singing before the sun goes down" : Jean Toomer's Cane and the Black oral performance aesthetic -- Of goat paths and Dixie pike.
Call Number
Sc E 08-1341
ISBN
  • 9780814210710 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814210716 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780814291481 (cd-rom)
  • 0814291481 (cd-rom)
LCCN
2007017452
OCLC
123767325
Author
Ak̥oma, Chiji.
Title
Folklore in New World Black fiction : writing and the oral traditional aesthetics / Chiji Ak̥oma.
Imprint
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-158) and index.
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 08-1341
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