The trickster comes west : Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives / / Babacar M'Baye
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| Autore: |
M'Baye Babacar <1967->
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| Titolo: |
The trickster comes west : Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives / / Babacar M'Baye
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/8960729 |
| Soggetto topico: | Caribbean literature (English) - Black authors - History and criticism |
| American literature - African American authors - History and criticism | |
| Black people - Race identity - America | |
| Pan-Africanism in literature | |
| Slave narratives - History and criticism | |
| Tricksters in literature | |
| African diaspora in literature | |
| Slavery in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | America Civilization African influences |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 wor |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The trickster comes west |
| ISBN: | 1-282-48599-7 |
| 9786612485992 | |
| 1-60473-352-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815056203321 |
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