Description |
270 pages ; 24 cm |
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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.
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American literature -- African influences. |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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African literature -- Appreciation -- United States.
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African literature -- Appreciation. |
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United States. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
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Gothic revival (Literature) |
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Fables, American -- History and criticism.
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Fables, American. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Africa -- In literature.
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Africa. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Ethics in literature.
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Ethics in literature. |
ISBN |
0813122201 acid-free paper |
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