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Author:

Cartwright, Keith, 1960-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

270 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--African influences.
American literature--History and criticism--History and criticism
African literature--Appreciation--United States.
American literature--History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature)--United States.
Fables, American--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature
Slavery in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Africa--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index. Includes bibliographic references (p. [241]-257) and index.

Contents:

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 coupé: malign machinations, gothic plots -- "Never once but like ripples": on boomeranging trumps, rememory, and the novel as medium.

ISBN:

9780813122205 (acid-free paper)
0813122201 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46918060

LCCN:

2001002582

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)