The trickster comes west : Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives / Babacar M'Baye.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University Press of Mississippi,
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 247 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604733525 1604733527 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |