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.
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