Water and African American memory
Subtitle: an ecocritical perspective
By: Anissa Janine Wardi
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780813037455
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Water in motion pictures; History and criticism; Ecocriticism; Water in literature; African American authors; American fiction; African diaspora in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. African American watersheds; title: Between breath and death: transatlantic memory in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust; title: Arteries of the nation: rivers of redemption in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Henry Dumas's Ark of bones; title: Wetlands, swamps, and bayous: bodies of resistance in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's bayou and Toni Morrison's Tar baby; title: Conclusion. Mud, blood, and the blues: Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters of the African diaspora.