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Author:

Mvuyekure, Pierre-Damien.

Title:

The "dark heathenism" of the American novelist Ishmael Reed : African voodoo as American literary hoodoo / Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure ; with a preface by Jerome Klinkowitz.

Publisher:

Edwin Mellen Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xvi, 301 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Reed, Ishmael,--1938---Criticism and interpretation.
Reed, Ishmael,--1938---Aesthetics.
Voodooism in literature.
African Americans in literature
African American aesthetics.
Aesthetics, African.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index.

Contents:

Neo-hoodooism : post-colonial textual resistance, African diaspora re-connection, and multicultural poetics -- The free-lance pallbearers : colonial mimicry and "adulteration of her tongue" -- Yellow back radio broke-down : "scatting arbitrarily" and blowing like Charlie "Bird" Parker : hoodoo be-bop western -- Mumbo jumbo : "profaning western sacred words" and "beating them on the anvil of boogie woogie" -- The last days of Louisiana Red : "the wretched of the earth" -- Flight to Canada : hoodoo writing as a "pièce de résistance" -- The terrible twos and The terrible threes : ecological imperialism, Christmas blues, reggae, and calypso -- Reckless eyeballing : writing post-coloniality and African American women's feminist fictions -- Japanese by spring : re/writing American orientalism and the metonymic function of Japanese and Yoruba.

ISBN:

0773454403
9780773454408

OCLC:

(OCoLC)85766665

LCCN:

2007007443

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)