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LEADER: 02334cam 2200361 a 4500
001 2001002582
003 DLC
005 20050607105856.0
008 010502s2002 kyu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2001002582
020 $a0813122201 (acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---$af------
050 00 $aPS159.A35$bC37 2002
082 00 $a810.9/896073$221
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 8 $aMachine 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.
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 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
651 0 $aAfrica$xIn literature.
650 0 $aSlavery in literature.
650 0 $aEthics in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2001002582.html