Water and African American Memory [electronic resource] : An Ecocritical Perspective /
Wardi, Anissa Janine,1969-
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
2011.
Offers the first sustained treatise on watercourses in the African American expressive tradition.
Description based upon print version of record.
Offers the first sustained treatise on watercourses in the African American expressive tradition.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167) and index.
Introduction. 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.
Description based on print version record.
Ecocriticism.
Water in motion pictures.
Water in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
African Americans in literature.
American fiction