Dancing on the Color Line : African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature /

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"The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries rega...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Martin, Gretchen, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tricksters in literature.
American literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans.
African American arts > Influence.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Folklore > Histoire.
Tricksters dans la litterature.
Arts noirs americains > Influence.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
African Americans > Folklore > History.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
History.
Folklore.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Frontmatter; Contents; Acknowledgment; Introduction; Chapter 1: Swallow Barn's Signifying Son; Trickster Wit and Subversive Hero; Chapter 2: Come Back to the Cabin Ag'in, Tom Honey!; Chapter 3: Melville's Signifying Monkey "Starts Some Shit"; Chapter 4: Born in a Brier-Patch and Frontier Bred; Joel Chandler Harris in Black and White; Chapter 5: Twain's Tricksters; Slip the Yoke and Poach the Joke; Conclusion: the Tellers; "Not without Laughter"; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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