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Transcendence and the Africana literary enterprise /
Framing the concept of transcendence, this study covers over a dozen traditional African American works in an original and thought-provoking analysis that places canonical approaches in enlightened discourse with Africana studies reader-response priorities.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Critical Africana studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Canon and the Africana Worldview ; 1. Literary Africology ; 2. Twentieth Century Black Lives Mattered: Reading Male Mortality in The Souls of Black Folk and The Living Is Easy ; 3. "Can't the Race Stand a Joke?": Humor and Pan-African Folk Negotiation in Banjo ; 4. Africana Literary Methods and the Bibliographic Shift in Iola Leroy and The Street ; 5. Autobiography and Documentary Forms of Here I Stand as Black Cultural Mythology ; 6. A Raisin in the Sun and the Tradition of Literary Pan-Africanism ; 7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and the Demographic Literary Standard.
- 8. The Parable of the Sower's Earthseed as Black Liberation Theology ; 9. Self-Eulogy as Prophetic Afrofuturism in Narratives of John Henrik Clarke and Malcolm X ; 10. Maat and the Psychology of Justice in the Morrisonesque Community of Perfect Peace ; 11. Beyoncé? No. Lauryn Hill? Yes: Interludes of Womanist Hip Hop and the Traditional Activist Genre ; 12. Broadway as Text : Africana History on Stage in Hamilton and Aida ; 13. Image and Verse, Music and Media: Diasporic Performance of Cultural Memory ; Conclusion: An Atmosphere of Freedom.