When Brer Rabbit meets Coyote : African-Native American literature / edited by Jonathan Brennan.
"He examines African-Native American political and historical texts, travel narratives, and the Mardi Gras Indian tradition, suggesting that this evolving oral tradition parallels the development of numerous Black Indian literary traditions in the United States and Latin America."--Jacket.
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Table of Contents:
- On the interaction of traditions / David Elton Gay
- Brer Rabbit and his Cherokee cousin / Sandra K. Baringer
- Briton Hammon, the Indian captivity narrative and the African American slave narrative / John Sekora
- Recapturing John Marant / Benilde Montgomery
- Speaking across boundaries / Jonathan Brennan
- In search of the Mardi Gras Indians / Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose, and Tad Jones
- Mardi Gras Indians, carnival and counter-narrative in Black New Orleans / George Lipsitz
- Wrapped in the serpent's tail, Alice Walker's African-native American subjectivity / Patricia Riley
- If you know I have a history, you will respect me / Sharon P. Holland
- African-Native American subjectivity and the blues voice in the writings of Toni Morrison and Sherman Alexie / Paul Pasquaretta.