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Mnemopoetics : memory and slavery in African American drama
- Title
- Mnemopoetics : memory and slavery in African American drama / Valerie Bada.
- Author
- Bada, Valérie.
- Publication
- Bruxelles ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- 226 pages; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- Dramaturgies ; no. 14
- Uniform Title
- Dramaturgies ; no. 14.
- Alternative Title
- Memory and slavery in African American drama
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226).
- Contents
- Introduction: mnemopoetics -- Topomnesia: siting the past -- Ambivalent mnemopoetics, choral drama, epic and pageantry in Owen Dodson's Amistad (1939) -- Spiritual mnemopoetics: music as articulation in Langston Hughes's The sun do move (1942) -- Displaced poetics: ambiguous ancestors -- Place, time and action: fundamental disunities in Shirley Graham's It's mornin' (1940) -- Ambivalent tragedy: cross-cultural poetics in Rita Dove's The darker face of the Earth (1994-1996) -- Ritual mnemopoetics: Black arts aesthetics -- Phonomnesia: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's Slave ship (1967) -- Ontological journey from darkness to blk-ness: Val Ferdinand/Kalamu ya Salaam's Blk love song #1 (1969) -- Cryptomnesia: possessed by the past -- Apocalyptic "eclipsed presences": Daniel W. Owens's The box (1989) -- "Ripping the veil": Robbie McCauley's Sally's rape (1989) -- Conclusion: mnemotheatre.
- ISBN
- 9789052012766
- 9052012768
- LCCN
- 2009378288
- OCLC
- ocn225872572
- 225872572
- SCSB-1505499
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library