Folklore in New World Black Fiction
Subtitle: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: December 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780814210710
Subjects: African; American - African American; Literary Criticism & Collections / African-American & Black; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 20th century; African American authors; African American oral tradition; American fiction; History; History and criticism; Literature and folklore; United States
Description: "In Folklore in New World Black Fiction, Chiji Akoma offers an interpretive model for the reading of the African New World novel focusing on folklore, not as an igredient, but as the basis for the narratives. The works examined do not contain folklore materials; they are folklore, constituted by the intersections of African oral narrative aesthetics, New World sensibility, and the written tradition. Specifically Akoma looks at four African Caribbean and African American novelists, Roy A.K. Heath, Wilson Harris, Toni Morrison, and Jean Toomer."--Jacket.