Reading Africa Into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic TalesThe literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of which they were written. Cartwright grounds his study of American writings in texts from the Senegambian. |
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Contents
Towards a Hippikat Poetics | 1 |
From Sunjata to The Souls of Black Folk | 25 |
Toomer Hurston and Ellison | 48 |
Malcolm X Kunta Kinte and Milkman Dead | 68 |
African Roots GeecheeGombo Tales | 93 |
Joel Chandler Harriss Other Fellow | 114 |
Milk Bonds and the Maumer Tongue | 130 |
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Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales Keith Cartwright Limited preview - 2014 |
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