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001 2011018995
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008 110518s2011 flua b 001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn709674052
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050 00 $aPS153.N5$bW344 2011
082 00 $a810.9/896073$223
100 1 $aWardi, Anissa Janine,$d1969-
245 10 $aWater and African American memory :$ban ecocritical perspective /$cAnissa Janine Wardi.
260 $aGainesville :$bUniversity Press of Florida,$cc2011.
300 $a179 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-167) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction. African American watersheds -- Between breath and death: transatlantic memory in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust -- Arteries of the nation: rivers of redemption in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Henry Dumas's Ark of bones -- Wetlands, swamps, and bayous: bodies of resistance in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's bayou and Toni Morrison's Tar baby -- Conclusion. Mud, blood, and the blues: Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters of the African diaspora.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aAfrican diaspora in literature.
650 0 $aWater in literature.
650 0 $aWater in motion pictures.
650 0 $aEcocriticism.