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Author:

Jennings, La Vinia Delois.

Title:

Toni Morrison and the idea of Africa / La Vinia Delois Jennings.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Morrison, Toni--Symbolism.
Morrison, Toni--Africa.--Africa.
Symbolism in literature.
Signs and symbols--Africa.
Idols and images in literature.
Rites and ceremonies in literature.
American literature--African influences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: finding the elusive but identifiable Blackness within the culture out of which Toni Morrison writes -- Dahomey's Vodun and Kongo's Yowa: the survival of West and Central African traditional cosmologies in African America -- Bandoki: witches, ambivalent power, and the fusion of good and evil -- Kanda: living elders, the ancestral presence, and the ancestor as foundation -- Banganga: the specialists--medicine (wo)men and priest(esse)s -- Identifiable Blackness: Toni Morrison's literary canon at the Western crossroads.

ISBN:

0521885043
9780521885041

OCLC:

(OCoLC)174449841

LCCN:

2008276471

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)