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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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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
  • American drama > African American authors > History and criticism
  • Mnemonics in literature
  • Slavery in literature
  • American drama > African American authors
  • Drama
  • Erinnerung Motiv
  • Schwarze
  • Sklaverei Motiv
  • USA
  • Schwarze
  • USA
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