A spirit of dialogue
Subtitle: incarnations of Ợgbañje, the born-to-die, in African American literature
By: Christopher N. Okonkwo.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781572336155
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Myth in literature.; Mourning customs in literature.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; African Americans in literature.; Death in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-239) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: an aesthetic (re)mark on the spirit child; value: Ợgbañje and Àbíkú: contexts, conceptualizations, and two West African literary archetypes; value: Chinua Achebe, the neo-slave narrative, the nationalist aesthetic, and African American (re)visions of the spirit child; value: Of power, protest, and revolution: wild seed and mind of my mind; value: Binary nativity, subjectivity, and the wages of (in)fidelity to "origins": The between; value: Mediating character, theme, and narration: "Ợgbañje" as hermeneutics in The cattle killing; value: Sula, Beloved, and the constructive synchrony of good and evil; value: Epilogue: this blues called Ợgbañje.