Legba's crossing : narratology in the African Atlantic /

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In Haiti, Papa Legba is the spirit whose permission must be sought to communicate with the spirit world. He stands at and for the crossroads of language, interpretation, and form and is considered to be like the voice of a god. This book examines how writers from the United States and the anglophone...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russell, Heather, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Littérature antillaise (anglaise) > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Race dans la littérature.
Africains > Pays étrangers, dans la littérature.
Narration.
Discours narratif.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African diaspora in literature
American literature > African American authors
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Race in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Race, citizenship, and form : James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man
  • The poetics of biomythography : the work of Audre Lorde
  • Race, nation, and the imagination : Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven
  • Jazz imaginings of the nation-state : Earl Lovelace's Salt
  • Dis-ease, de-formity, and diaspora : John Edgar Wideman's The cattle killing.

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