Emerging Afrikan survivals [[electronic resource] ] : an Afrocentric critical theory / / Kamau Kemayo |
Autore | Kemayo Kamau |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (187 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.509896073 |
Collana | Studies in African American history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism Literature and folklore - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century American fiction - African influences African Americans in literature Folklore in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-29176-1
9786610291762 0-203-48397-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Historically Situating African American Culture; 3 Change and Cultural Representation in African American Literary Criticism; 4 Recent Directions in African American Literary Criticism; Overview to Part II; 5 Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon; 6 David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident; 7 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; 8 A Review of Contemporary African American Novels; 9 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451018703321 |
Kemayo Kamau
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New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
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Emerging Afrikan survivals [[electronic resource] ] : an Afrocentric critical theory / / Kamau Kemayo |
Autore | Kemayo Kamau |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (187 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.509896073 |
Collana | Studies in African American history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism Literature and folklore - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century American fiction - African influences African Americans in literature Folklore in literature |
ISBN |
1-135-94214-5
1-280-29176-1 9786610291762 0-203-48397-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Historically Situating African American Culture; 3 Change and Cultural Representation in African American Literary Criticism; 4 Recent Directions in African American Literary Criticism; Overview to Part II; 5 Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon; 6 David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident; 7 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; 8 A Review of Contemporary African American Novels; 9 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783612503321 |
Kemayo Kamau
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New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Emerging Afrikan survivals [[electronic resource] ] : an Afrocentric critical theory / / Kamau Kemayo |
Autore | Kemayo Kamau |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (187 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.509896073 |
Collana | Studies in African American history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism Literature and folklore - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century American fiction - African influences African Americans in literature Folklore in literature |
ISBN |
1-135-94214-5
1-280-29176-1 9786610291762 0-203-48397-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Historically Situating African American Culture; 3 Change and Cultural Representation in African American Literary Criticism; 4 Recent Directions in African American Literary Criticism; Overview to Part II; 5 Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon; 6 David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident; 7 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; 8 A Review of Contemporary African American Novels; 9 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815370803321 |
Kemayo Kamau
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New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
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Our mothers, our powers, our texts [[electronic resource] ] : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington |
Autore | Washington Teresa N. <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/351 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism African fiction (English) - History and criticism African American women - Intellectual life American fiction - African influences African American women in literature Mothers and daughters in literature Yoruba (African people) - Religion Motherhood in literature Creation in literature Women in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786612263187
0-253-00319-9 1-282-26318-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Ajé in Yorubaland -- Ajé across the continent and in the Itànkálé -- Word becoming flesh and text in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and T. Obinkaram Echewa's I saw the sky catch fire -- Initiations into the self, the conjured space of creation, and prophetic utterance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa and Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, cypress & indigo -- Un/complementary complements : gender, power, and Ajé -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Ajé relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Ajé of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454898003321 |
Washington Teresa N. <1971->
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 | ||
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Our mothers, our powers, our texts [[electronic resource] ] : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington |
Autore | Washington Teresa N. <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/351 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism African fiction (English) - History and criticism African American women - Intellectual life American fiction - African influences African American women in literature Mothers and daughters in literature Yoruba (African people) - Religion Motherhood in literature Creation in literature Women in literature |
ISBN |
9786612263187
0-253-00319-9 1-282-26318-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Ajé in Yorubaland -- Ajé across the continent and in the Itànkálé -- Word becoming flesh and text in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and T. Obinkaram Echewa's I saw the sky catch fire -- Initiations into the self, the conjured space of creation, and prophetic utterance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa and Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, cypress & indigo -- Un/complementary complements : gender, power, and Ajé -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Ajé relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Ajé of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778323603321 |
Washington Teresa N. <1971->
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Our mothers, our powers, our texts [[electronic resource] ] : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington |
Autore | Washington Teresa N. <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/351 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism African fiction (English) - History and criticism African American women - Intellectual life American fiction - African influences African American women in literature Mothers and daughters in literature Yoruba (African people) - Religion Motherhood in literature Creation in literature Women in literature |
ISBN |
9786612263187
0-253-00319-9 1-282-26318-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Ajé in Yorubaland -- Ajé across the continent and in the Itànkálé -- Word becoming flesh and text in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and T. Obinkaram Echewa's I saw the sky catch fire -- Initiations into the self, the conjured space of creation, and prophetic utterance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa and Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, cypress & indigo -- Un/complementary complements : gender, power, and Ajé -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Ajé relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Ajé of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816833503321 |
Washington Teresa N. <1971->
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 | ||
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Religiosity, cosmology and folklore : the African influence in the novels of Toni Morrison / / Therese E. Higgins |
Autore | Higgins Therese E. <1960-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.54 |
Collana | Studies in African American History and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African influences
African Americans in literature Cosmology in literature Folklore in literature Religion in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-315-81098-0
1-317-79418-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; PART I God, Gods, and Spirits in African Life: Song Of Solomon, Beloved, Tar Baby, and Jazz; CHAPTER 1 Ancient Ancestral Folklore in Song Of Solomon; CHAPTER 2 The Influence of African Cosmological Beliefs in Beloved; CHAPTER 3 Tar Baby and the Ancient Folktales of Africa; Chapter 4 Jazz and African Ancestral Cultures and Traditions; PART II A Circle of Friends: Communities of Women in The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise; CHAPTER 5 The Failure of Community in The Bluest Eye
CHAPTER 6 The Rejection of Community in SulaCHAPTER 7 ""Ancient Properties"" and Communal Connection in Tar Baby; CHAPTER 8 The Power of Community in Beloved; CHAPTER 9 Jazz and Community Values; CHAPTER 10 Paradise: The Final Frontier; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464873403321 |
Higgins Therese E. <1960-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2001 | ||
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Religiosity, cosmology and folklore : the African influence in the novels of Toni Morrison / / Therese E. Higgins |
Autore | Higgins Therese E. <1960-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.54 |
Collana | Studies in African American History and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African influences
African Americans in literature Cosmology in literature Folklore in literature Religion in literature |
ISBN |
1-317-79417-6
1-315-81098-0 1-317-79418-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; PART I God, Gods, and Spirits in African Life: Song Of Solomon, Beloved, Tar Baby, and Jazz; CHAPTER 1 Ancient Ancestral Folklore in Song Of Solomon; CHAPTER 2 The Influence of African Cosmological Beliefs in Beloved; CHAPTER 3 Tar Baby and the Ancient Folktales of Africa; Chapter 4 Jazz and African Ancestral Cultures and Traditions; PART II A Circle of Friends: Communities of Women in The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise; CHAPTER 5 The Failure of Community in The Bluest Eye
CHAPTER 6 The Rejection of Community in SulaCHAPTER 7 ""Ancient Properties"" and Communal Connection in Tar Baby; CHAPTER 8 The Power of Community in Beloved; CHAPTER 9 Jazz and Community Values; CHAPTER 10 Paradise: The Final Frontier; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
Altri titoli varianti | Religiosity, cosmology & folklore |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786557503321 |
Higgins Therese E. <1960-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2001 | ||
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Religiosity, cosmology and folklore : the African influence in the novels of Toni Morrison / / Therese E. Higgins |
Autore | Higgins Therese E. <1960-, > |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina |
813/.54
813.54 |
Collana | Studies in African American History and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African influences
African Americans in literature Cosmology in literature Folklore in literature Religion in literature |
ISBN |
1-317-79417-6
1-315-81098-0 1-317-79418-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; PART I God, Gods, and Spirits in African Life: Song Of Solomon, Beloved, Tar Baby, and Jazz; CHAPTER 1 Ancient Ancestral Folklore in Song Of Solomon; CHAPTER 2 The Influence of African Cosmological Beliefs in Beloved; CHAPTER 3 Tar Baby and the Ancient Folktales of Africa; Chapter 4 Jazz and African Ancestral Cultures and Traditions; PART II A Circle of Friends: Communities of Women in The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise; CHAPTER 5 The Failure of Community in The Bluest Eye
CHAPTER 6 The Rejection of Community in SulaCHAPTER 7 ""Ancient Properties"" and Communal Connection in Tar Baby; CHAPTER 8 The Power of Community in Beloved; CHAPTER 9 Jazz and Community Values; CHAPTER 10 Paradise: The Final Frontier; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
Altri titoli varianti | Religiosity, cosmology & folklore |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812092003321 |
Higgins Therese E. <1960-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2001 | ||
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