- Description
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Reading Africa into American literature (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Reading Africa into American literature (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. Epic Impulses/Narratives of Ancestry -- 1. Imperial Mother Wit, Gumbo Erotics: From Sunjata to The Souls of Black Folk 25 -- 2. Of Root Figures and Buggy Jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison 48 -- 3. Myth-making, Mother-child-ness, and Epic Renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead 68 -- Part II. Bound Cultures/The Creolization of Dixie -- 4. "Two Heads Fighting": African Roots, Geechee/Gombo Tales 93 -- 5. Creole Self-Fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "Other Fellow" 114 -- 6. Searching for Spiritual Soil: Milk Bonds and the "Maumer Tongue" 130 -- Part III. Shadows of Africans/Gothic Representations -- 7. The Spears of the Party of the Merciful: Senegambian Muslims, Scriptural Mercy, and Plantation Slavery 157 -- 8. Babo and Bras Coupe: -- Malign Machinations, Gothic Plots 181 -- 9. "Never Once but Like Ripples": On Boomeranging Trumps, Rememory, and the Novel as Medium 203.
- LCCN
- 2001002582
- OCLC
- ssj0001402795
- Author
Cartwright, Keith, 1960-
- Title
Reading Africa into American literature [electronic resource] : epics, fables, and gothic tales / Keith Cartwright.
- Imprint
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2002.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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