Reading Africa into American literature
Subtitle: epics, fables, and gothic tales
By: Keith Cartwright.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: American literature -- African influences; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African literature -- Appreciation -- United States; American literature -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States; Fables, American -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African Americans in literature; Slavery in literature; Ethics in literature; Africa -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Epic Impulses/Narratives of Ancestry; title: 1. Imperial Mother Wit, Gumbo Erotics: From Sunjata to The Souls of Black Folk 25; title: 2. Of Root Figures and Buggy Jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison 48; title: 3. Myth-making, Mother-child-ness, and Epic Renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead 68; title: Part II. Bound Cultures/The Creolization of Dixie; title: 4. "Two Heads Fighting": African Roots, Geechee/Gombo Tales 93; title: 5. Creole Self-Fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "Other Fellow" 114; title: 6. Searching for Spiritual Soil: Milk Bonds and the "Maumer Tongue" 130; title: Part III. Shadows of Africans/Gothic Representations; title: 7. The Spears of the Party of the Merciful: Senegambian Muslims, Scriptural Mercy, and Plantation Slavery 157; title: 8. Babo and Bras Coupe:; title: Malign Machinations, Gothic Plots 181; title: 9. "Never Once but Like Ripples": On Boomeranging Trumps, Rememory, and the Novel as Medium 203.