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Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales /

The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ell...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cartwright, Keith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction. Tropical Trees: Towards a Hippikat Poetics; I; II; Ill; IV; V; Part I. Epic Impulses/Narratives of Ancestry; 1. Imperial Mother Wit, Gumbo Erotics: From Sunjata to The Souls of Black Folk; I; II; Ill; 2. Of Root Figures and Buggy Jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison; I; II; III; IV; 3. Myth-making, Mother-child-ness, and Epic Renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead; I; II; Ill; Part II. Bound Cultures/The Creolization of Dixie; 4. ""Two Heads Fighting"": African Roots, Geechee/Gombo Tales; I; II; Ill; IV. 
505 8 |a 5. Creole Self-Fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's Other FellowI; II; Ill; IV; 6. Searching for Spiritual Soil: Milk Bonds and the Maumer Tongue -- I; II; Ill; IV; Part III. Shadows of Africans/Gothic Representations; 7. The Spears of the Party of the Merciful: Senegambian Muslims, Scriptural Mercy, and Plantation Slavery; I; II; Ill; IV; 8. Babo and Bras Coupe: Malign Machinations, Gothic Plots; I; II; Ill; 9. Never Once but Like Ripples: On Boomeranging Trumps, Rememory, and the Novel as Medium; I; II; III; Notes; Works Cited; Index. 
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