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1 online resource (x, 247 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index. |
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African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters -- Pan-Africanism in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's liberation discourse -- Pan-Africanism in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Africanism and Methodism in the works of Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert -- African and Caribbean patterns in Mary Prince's resistance. |
| Summary |
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. Using an interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy, the book examines the wor. |
| Local Note |
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Caribbean literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature (English) |
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Authors, Black. |
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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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Black people -- Race identity -- America.
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Black people -- Race identity. |
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America. |
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Pan-Africanism in literature.
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Pan-Africanism in literature. |
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Slave narratives -- History and criticism.
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Tricksters in literature.
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African diaspora in literature.
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Slave narratives. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Tricksters in literature. |
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America -- Civilization -- African influences.
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Civilization. |
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African diaspora in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
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Slavery in literature. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. |
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Civilization -- African influences. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: M'Baye, Babacar, 1967- Trickster comes west. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009 9781604732337 (DLC) 2008045576 (OCoLC)276816866 |
| ISBN |
9781604733525 (electronic book) |
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1604733527 (electronic book) |
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9781604732337 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1604732334 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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