LEADER 00000cam a2200805Ia 4500 001 ocn900344638 003 OCoLC 005 20170127064051.2 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 150117s2015 kyu o 000 0 eng d 020 9780813158334|q(electronic book) 020 0813158338|q(electronic book) 035 (OCoLC)900344638 037 22573/ctt1299z4c|bJSTOR 040 EBLCP|beng|epn|cEBLCP|dN$T|dOCLCQ|dN$T|dOCLCF|dJSTOR |dOCLCQ|dOCLCO 043 f------|an-us--- 049 RIDW 050 4 PS159.A35 072 7 LIT|x004020|2bisacsh 072 7 LIT004040|2bisacsh 072 7 LIT004020|2bisacsh 082 04 810.9|a810.9896073|223 090 PS159.A35 100 1 Cartwright, Keith,|d1960-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/no00015085 245 10 Reading Africa into American literature :|bepics, fables, and gothic tales /|cKeith Cartwright. 264 1 Lexington :|bThe University Press of Kentucky,|c[2015] 264 4 |c©2015 300 1 online resource (282 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 505 0 Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction. Tropical Trees: Towards a Hippikat Poetics; I; II; Ill; IV; V; Part I. Epic Impulses/Narratives of Ancestry; 1. Imperial Mother Wit, Gumbo Erotics: From Sunjata to The Souls of Black Folk; I; II; Ill; 2. Of Root Figures and Buggy Jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison; I; II; III; IV; 3. Myth-making, Mother-child-ness, and Epic Renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead; I; II; Ill; Part II. Bound Cultures/The Creolization of Dixie; 4. ""Two Heads Fighting"": African Roots, Geechee/ Gombo Tales; I; II; Ill; IV. 505 8 5. Creole Self-Fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's ""Other Fellow""I; II; Ill; IV; 6. Searching for Spiritual Soil: Milk Bonds and the ""Maumer Tongue""; I; II; Ill; IV; Part III. Shadows of Africans/Gothic Representations; 7. The Spears of the Party of the Merciful: Senegambian Muslims, Scriptural Mercy, and Plantation Slavery; I; II; Ill; IV; 8. Babo and Bras Coupe: Malign Machinations, Gothic Plots; I; II; Ill; 9. ""Never Once but Like Ripples"": On Boomeranging Trumps, Rememory, and the Novel as Medium; I; II; III; Notes; Works Cited; Index. 520 The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of which they were written. 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