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

Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (282 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction. Tropical Trees: Towards a Hippikat Poetics; I; II; Ill; IV; V; Part I. Epic Impulses/Narratives of Ancestry; 1. Imperial Mother Wit, Gumbo Erotics: From Sunjata to The Souls of Black Folk; I; II; Ill; 2. Of Root Figures and Buggy Jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison; I; II; III; IV; 3. Myth-making, Mother-child-ness, and Epic Renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead; I; II; Ill; Part II. Bound Cultures/The Creolization of Dixie; 4. ""Two Heads Fighting"": African Roots, Geechee/Gombo Tales; I; II; Ill; IV 5. Creole Self-Fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's Other FellowI; II; Ill; IV; 6. Searching for Spiritual Soil: Milk Bonds and the Maumer Tongue -- I; II; Ill; IV; Part III. Shadows of Africans/Gothic Representations; 7. The Spears of the Party of the Merciful: Senegambian Muslims, Scriptural Mercy, and Plantation Slavery; I; II; Ill; IV; 8. Babo and Bras Coupe: Malign Machinations, Gothic Plots; I; II; Ill; 9. Never Once but Like Ripples: On Boomeranging Trumps, Rememory, and the Novel as Medium; I; II; III; Notes; Works Cited; Index Summary The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of which they were written. Cartwright grounds his study of American writings in texts from the Senegambian Notes English Print version record Subject African Americans in literature. African literature -- Appreciation -- United States American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- African influences American literature -- History and criticism. Ethics in literature. Fables, American -- History and criticism Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States Slavery in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. African Americans in literature African literature -- Appreciation American literature American literature -- African American authors American literature -- African influences Ethics in literature Fables, American Gothic revival (Literature) Literature Slavery in literature SUBJECT Africa -- In literature Subject Africa United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813158334 0813158338 1322598126 9781322598123 0813122201 9780813122205

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