Reading Africa into American Literature
Subtitle: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780813122205
Subjects: African studies; American studies; Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; American - Southern; African American Literature; American Literature (General); United States; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - African American & Black; African influences; American - General; African American authors; African literature; American literature; Appreciation; History and criticism
First sentence: Following Fa-Digi Sisoko's narration of a royal search party's journey to foreign markets to locate the exiled Sunjata, I will be bringing some of the occulted signs and semiotic systems of Senegambian cultures into the marketplace of American literatures in an effort to discover telling moments of recognition.