| Edition |
Paperback ed. |
| Description |
270 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 coupe : 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 American authors -- History and criticism.
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African literature -- Appreciation.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Fables, American -- History and criticism.
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African Americans in literature.
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Africa -- In literature.
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Slavery in literature.
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Ethics in literature.
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| ISBN |
0813190894 |
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