The trickster comes west
Subtitle: Pan-African influence in early Black Diasporan narratives
By: Babacar M'Baye.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781604732337
Subjects: Caribbean literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Blacks -- Race identity -- America; Pan-Africanism in literature; Slave narratives -- History and criticism; Tricksters in literature; African diaspora in literature; Slavery in literature; America -- Civilization -- African influences
Description: This book explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. It examines the work of Pan-African trickster icons, such as Leuk (rabbit), Golo (monkey), Bouki (hyena), Mbe (tortoise), and Anancy (spider), on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters; title: Pan-Africanism in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's liberation discourse; title: Pan-Africanism in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative; title: Africanism and Methodism in the works of Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert; title: African and Caribbean patterns in Mary Prince's resistance.