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The devil, the gargoyle, and the buffoon : the Negro as metaphor in Western literature / Lemuel A. Johnson.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Johnson, Lemuel A.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press, 1971.
Series:	National university publications. Literary criticism series.
Subjects:	Black people in literature. African Americans in literature. Metaphor in literature. Poetry > Black authors > History and criticism. Blacks in literature. Poetry > Black authors. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Introduction to a process of syncretism. The Sierra Leone creole ; Genesis: The idea of blackness in human form
pt. 2. The response to blackness in human form. The English metaphor ; The Spanish metaphor ; The French metaphor
pt. 3. Allegiances and identities. Langston Hughes and American Negro folklore ; Nicolas Cuillen and Afrocubanism ; Aime Cesaire and Haitian voodoo.