Water and African American memory : an ecocritical perspective /

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Offers the first sustained treatise on watercourses in the African American expressive tradition.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wardi, Anissa Janine, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]
Temas:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Water in literature.
Water in motion pictures.
Ecocriticism.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Africains > Pays étrangers, dans la littérature.
Eau dans la littérature.
Eau au cinéma.
Écocritique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans in literature
African diaspora in literature
American fiction > African American authors
Ecocriticism
Water in literature
Water in motion pictures
Literatur
Wasser > Motiv
Schwarze
Schwarze.
Literatur.
Wasser.
USA
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. African American watersheds
  • Between breath and death: transatlantic memory in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust
  • Arteries of the nation: rivers of redemption in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Henry Dumas's Ark of bones
  • Wetlands, swamps, and bayous: bodies of resistance in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's bayou and Toni Morrison's Tar baby
  • Conclusion. Mud, blood, and the blues: Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters of the African diaspora.

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