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Author Cartwright, Keith, 1960-

Title Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales / Keith Cartwright.

Publication Info. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2002]
©2002

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 Moore Stacks  PS159.A35 C37 2002    Available  ---
Description 270 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-257) and index.
Contents pt. I. Epic impulses/narratives of ancestry -- Imperial mother wit, gumbo erotics: from Sunjata to The souls of Black folk -- Of root figures and buggy jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison -- Myth-making, mother-child-ness, and epic renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead -- pt. II. Bound cultures/the creolization of Dixie -- "Two heads fighting": African roots, geechee/gombo tales -- Creole self-fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "other fellow" -- Searching for spiritual soil: milk bonds and the "maumer tongue" -- pt. III. Shadows of Africans/gothic representations -- The spears of the party of the merciful: Senegambian Muslims, scriptural mercy, and plantation slavery -- Babo and bras coupé: malign machinations, gothic plots -- "Never once but like ripples": on boomeranging trumps, rememory, and the novel as medium.
Subject American literature -- African influences.
American literature -- African influences.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
African literature -- Appreciation -- United States.
African literature -- Appreciation.
United States.
American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Fables, American -- History and criticism.
Fables, American.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Africa -- In literature.
Africa.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics in literature.
ISBN 0813122201 acid-free paper