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Author:
Wardi, Anissa Janine, 1969-
Title:
Water and African American memory : an ecocritical perspective / Anissa Janine Wardi.
Publisher:
University Press of Florida,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Water in literature.
Water in motion pictures.
Ecocriticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. African American watersheds -- Between breath and death: transatlantic memory in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust -- Arteries of the nation: rivers of redemption in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Henry Dumas's Ark of bones -- Wetlands, swamps, and bayous: bodies of resistance in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's bayou and Toni Morrison's Tar baby -- Conclusion. Mud, blood, and the blues: Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters of the African diaspora.
ISBN:
081303745X (alk. paper)
9780813037455 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)709674052
LCCN:
2011018995
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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