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Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales
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- Creator
- Keith Cartwright
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- 270 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813122205, 0813122201
- OCLC
- ocm46918060
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-257) and index.
- Includes bibliographic references (pages [241]-257) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- American literature -- African influences.
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- African literature -- Appreciation -- United States.
- American literature -- History and criticism.
- Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
- Fables, American -- History and criticism.
- African Americans in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Ethics in literature.
- Africa -- In literature.