03505nam 2200757 a 450 991081505620332120200520144314.01-282-48599-797866124859921-60473-352-7(CKB)1000000000816893(EBL)515625(OCoLC)472608823(SSID)ssj0000343939(PQKBManifestationID)11256374(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343939(PQKBWorkID)10307291(PQKB)11166491(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206347(MiAaPQ)EBC515625(MdBmJHUP)muse13690(Au-PeEL)EBL515625(CaPaEBR)ebr10340774(CaONFJC)MIL248599(EXLCZ)99100000000081689320081021d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe trickster comes west Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives /Babacar M'Baye1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippic20091 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-233-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index.African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters -- Pan-Africanism in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's liberation discourse -- Pan-Africanism in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Africanism and Methodism in the works of Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert -- African and Caribbean patterns in Mary Prince's resistance.In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives 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. Using an interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy, the book examines the worCaribbean literature (English)Black authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismBlacksRace identityAmericaPan-Africanism in literatureSlave narrativesHistory and criticismTricksters in literatureAfrican diaspora in literatureSlavery in literatureAmericaCivilizationAfrican influencesCaribbean literature (English)Black authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.BlacksRace identityPan-Africanism in literature.Slave narrativesHistory and criticism.Tricksters in literature.African diaspora in literature.Slavery in literature.810.9/8960729M'Baye Babacar1967-1192861MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815056203321The trickster comes west3977510UNINA