Toni Morrison and the idea of Africa
By: La Vinia Delois Jennings
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780521173391
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Analys och tolkning; Knowledge; Africa; Idols and images in literature; Rites and ceremonies in literature; Influence; Symbolism; American literature; Symbolism in literature; African influences; Signs and symbols
Description: Explores the role of African traditional religious symbols in Morrison's fiction, interpreting African themes, images, and cultural resonances in the author's work.
Notes: Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-226) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: finding the elusive but identifiable Blackness within the culture out of which Toni Morrison writes; title: Dahomey's Vodun and Kongo's Yowa: the survival of west and central African traditional cosmologies in African America; title: Bandoki: witches, ambivalent power, and the fusion of good and evil; title: Kanda: living elders, the ancestral presence, and the ancestor as foundation; title: Banganga: the specialists; title: medicine (wo)men and priest(esse)s; title: Identifiable Blackness: Toni Morrison's literary canon at the western crossroads.