MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aPS159.A35$bC37 2002
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100 1 $aCartwright, Keith,$d1960-
245 10 $aReading Africa into American literature :$bepics, fables, and gothic tales /$cKeith Cartwright.
260 $aLexington :$bUniversity Press of Kentucky,$cc2002.
300 $a270 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
505 0 $apt. I. Epic impulses/narratives of ancestry -- Imperial mother wit, gumbo erotics: from Sunjata to The souls of Black folk -- Of root figures and buggy jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison -- Myth-making, mother-child-ness, and epic renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead -- pt. II. Bound cultures/the creolization of Dixie -- "Two heads fighting": African roots, geechee/gombo tales -- Creole self-fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "other fellow" -- Searching for spiritual soil: milk bonds and the "maumer tongue" -- pt. III. Shadows of Africans/gothic representations -- The spears of the party of the merciful: Senegambian Muslims, scriptural mercy, and plantation slavery -- Babo and bras coupé: malign machinations, gothic plots -- "Never once but like ripples": on boomeranging trumps, rememory, and the novel as medium.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican influences.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican literature$xAppreciation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zUnited States.
650 0 $aFables, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
651 0 $aAfrica$xIn literature.
650 0 $aSlavery in literature.
650 0 $aEthics in literature.
994 $aE0$bXIM