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02779cam a2200505 a 4500 001 0B10AF982B0011DEA052A807A8D7520A 005 200904162230.0 008 010502s2001 kyu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2001002582 020 $a 9780813122205 (acid-free paper) 020 $a 0813122201 (acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)46918060 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d NIU $d SILO 050 00 $a PS159.A35 $b C37 2002 082 00 $a 810.9/896073 $2 21 100 1 $a Cartwright, Keith, $d 1960- 245 1 $a Reading Africa into American literature : $b epics, fables, and gothic tales / $c Keith Cartwright. 260 $a Lexington : $b University Press of Kentucky, $c c2002. 300 $a 270 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index. 504 $a Includes bibliographic references (p. [241]-257) and index. 505 0 $a pt. I. Epic impulses/narratives of ancestry -- Imperial mother wit, gumbo erotics: from Sunjata to The souls of Black folk -- Of root figures and buggy jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison -- Myth-making, mother-child-ness, and epic renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead -- pt. II. Bound cultures/the creolization of Dixie -- "Two heads fighting": African roots, geechee/gombo tales -- Creole self-fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "other fellow" -- Searching for spiritual soil: milk bonds and the "maumer tongue" -- pt. III. Shadows of Africans/gothic representations -- The spears of the party of the merciful: Senegambian Muslims, scriptural mercy, and plantation slavery -- Babo and bras coupeÌ: malign machinations, gothic plots -- "Never once but like ripples": on boomeranging trumps, rememory, and the novel as medium. 650 0 $a American literature $x African influences. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism $x History and criticism 650 0 $a African literature $x Appreciation $z United States. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Gothic revival (Literature) $z United States. 650 0 $a Fables, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African Americans in literature 650 0 $a Slavery in literature. 650 0 $a Ethics in literature. 651 0 $a Africa $x In literature. 939 $a 4507499 941 $a 9 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525033821.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718080344.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926081329.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180119013939.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160820120703.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0B10AF982B0011DEA052A807A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b NIU 952 $l O4AX446 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OMAX631 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0Initiate Another SILO Locator Search