LEADER 03505nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910815056203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-48599-7 010 $a9786612485992 010 $a1-60473-352-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000816893 035 $a(EBL)515625 035 $a(OCoLC)472608823 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000343939 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11256374 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343939 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10307291 035 $a(PQKB)11166491 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206347 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC515625 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13690 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL515625 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10340774 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL248599 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000816893 100 $a20081021d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe trickster comes west $ePan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives /$fBabacar M'Baye 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60473-233-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index. 327 $aAfrican 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. 330 $aIn 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 wor 606 $aCaribbean literature (English)$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBlacks$xRace identity$zAmerica 606 $aPan-Africanism in literature 606 $aSlave narratives$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTricksters in literature 606 $aAfrican diaspora in literature 606 $aSlavery in literature 607 $aAmerica$xCivilization$xAfrican influences 615 0$aCaribbean literature (English)$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBlacks$xRace identity 615 0$aPan-Africanism in literature. 615 0$aSlave narratives$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTricksters in literature. 615 0$aAfrican diaspora in literature. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 676 $a810.9/8960729 700 $aM'Baye$b Babacar$f1967-$01192861 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815056203321 996 $aThe trickster comes west$93977510 997 $aUNINA