Legba's crossing : narratology in the African Atlantic / Heather Russell.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Heather, 1970-
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Physical Description:xi, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : critical paradigms in race, nation, and narratology
  • Race, citizenship, and form : James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man
  • The poetics of biomythography : the work of Audre Lorde
  • Race, nation, and the imagination : Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven
  • Jazz imaginings of the nation-state : Early Lovelace's Salt
  • Dis-ease, de-formity, and diaspora : John Edgar Wideman's The cattle killing
  • Conclusion : dialectics of globalization, development, and discourse.