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1 online resource (282 pages) |
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polychrome |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. Cartwright grounds his study of American writings in texts from the Senegambian. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Africa -- In literature.
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Africa. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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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 -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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American literature -- African influences.
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American literature -- African influences. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Ethics in literature.
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Ethics in literature. |
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Fables, American -- History and criticism.
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Fables, American. |
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
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Gothic revival (Literature) |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Cartwright, Keith. Reading Africa into American Literature : Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813122205 |
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9780813158334 (electronic book) |
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0813158338 (electronic book) |
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