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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, [2007], ©2007.

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Description

xvi, 301 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Reed, Ishmael, 1938- > Criticism and interpretation
• Cultural pluralism in literature
• African American aesthetics
• Vodou in literature
• Aesthetics, African
• Postcolonialism in literature
• African Americans in literature
• Reed, Ishmael, 1938- > Aesthetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index.

Contents

A brief introduction to Ishmael Reed -- Ch. 1. Neo-HooDooism : post-colonial textural resistance, African diaspora re-connection, and multicultural poetics -- Ch. II. The free-lance pallbearers : colonial mimicry and "adulteration of her tongue" -- Ch. III. Yellow black radio broke down : "scattering arbitrarily" and blowing like Charlie "Bird" Parker - HooDoo be-bop western -- Ch. IV. Mumbo jumbo : "profaning [western] sacred words" and "beating them on the anvil of boogie woogie" -- Ch. V. The last days of Louisiana Red : "the wretched of the earth" -- Ch. VI. Flight to Canada : HooDoo writing as a "piece de resistance" -- Ch. VII. The terrible twos and The terrible threes : ecological imperialism, Christmas blues, reggae, and calypso -- Ch. VII. Reckless eyeballing : writing post-coloniality and African American women's feminist fictions -- Ch. IX. Japanese by spring : re/writing American Orientalism and the metonymic fiction of Japanese and Yoruba.

ISBN

• 9780773454408
• 0773454403

LCCN

2007007443

OCLC

• 85766665
• ocm85766665
• SCSB-5343451

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries