Folklore in New World Black fiction : writing and the oral traditional aesthetics /
Ako̥ma, Chiji.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-158) and index.
Black oral performance and writing traditions in the New World -- Roy A. K. Heath and Guyanese anxiety lore -- Wilson Harris : dream worlds and the oral imagination -- "Something to figure in" : Toni Morrison and the complexities of oral narrativity -- "Singing before the sun goes down" : Jean Toomer's Cane and the Black oral performance aesthetic -- Of goat paths and Dixie pike.
American fiction
Literature and folklore
African American oral tradition.
African Americans
African Americans in literature.
Folklore in literature.
Hermeneutics.