Following Fa-Digi Sisoko's narration of a royal search party's journey to foreign markets to locate the exiled Sunjata, I will be bringing some of the occulted signs and semiotic systems of Senegambian cultures into the marketplace of American literatures in an effort to discover telling moments of recognition.
An edition of Reading Africa into American Literature
(2001)
Reading Africa into American literature
epics, fables, and gothic tales
by Keith Cartwright
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African Americans in literature, Gothic revival (Literature), Fables, American, Intellectual life, African literature, American literature, Ethics in literature, History and criticism, American Fables, Appreciation, African American authors, Slavery in literature, In literature, African Americans, African influences, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, African literature, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, Gothic revival (literature), Fables, history and criticism, Africa, in literaturePlaces
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Part I. Epic Impulses/Narratives of Ancestry
1. Imperial Mother Wit, Gumbo Erotics: From Sunjata to The Souls of Black Folk 25
2. Of Root Figures and Buggy Jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison 48
3. Myth-making, Mother-child-ness, and Epic Renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead 68
Part II. Bound Cultures/The Creolization of Dixie
4. "Two Heads Fighting": African Roots, Geechee/Gombo Tales 93
5. Creole Self-Fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "Other Fellow" 114
6. Searching for Spiritual Soil: Milk Bonds and the "Maumer Tongue" 130
Part III. Shadows of Africans/Gothic Representations
7. The Spears of the Party of the Merciful: Senegambian Muslims, Scriptural Mercy, and Plantation Slavery 157
8. Babo and Bras Coupe:
Malign Machinations, Gothic Plots 181
9. "Never Once but Like Ripples": On Boomeranging Trumps, Rememory, and the Novel as Medium 203.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
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