000315427 000__ 02236cam\a2200385Ia\4500 000315427 001__ 315427 000315427 005__ 20210513114529.0 000315427 008__ 040316t20042002kyu\\\\\\b\\\s001\0\eng\d 000315427 020__ $$a9780813190891 (pbk.) 000315427 020__ $$a0813190894 (pbk.) 000315427 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm54712564 000315427 035__ $$a315427 000315427 040__ $$aTSU$$cTSU$$dOCLCQ$$dNLGGC$$dYDXCP$$dBTCTA$$dBAKER 000315427 043__ $$an-us---$$af------ 000315427 049__ $$aISEA 000315427 050_4 $$aPS159.A35$$bC37 2004 000315427 08204 $$a810.9896073 000315427 1001_ $$aCartwright, Keith,$$d1960- 000315427 24510 $$aReading Africa into American literature :$$bepics, fables, and gothic tales /$$cKeith Cartwright. 000315427 250__ $$aPaperback ed. 000315427 260__ $$aLexington :$$bUniversity Press of Kentucky,$$c2004, c2002. 000315427 300__ $$a270 p. ;$$c23 cm. 000315427 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index. 000315427 5050_ $$apt. I. Epic impulses/narratives of ancestry -- Imperial mother wit, gumbo erotics: from Sunjata to The souls of Black folk -- Of root figures and buggy jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison -- Myth-making, mother-child-ness, and epic renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead -- pt. II. Bound cultures/the creolization of Dixie -- "Two heads fighting": African roots, geechee/gombo tales -- Creole self-fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "other fellow" -- Searching for spiritual soil: milk bonds and the "maumer tongue" -- pt. III. Shadows of Africans/gothic representations -- The spears of the party of the merciful: Senegambian Muslims, scriptural mercy, and plantation slavery -- Babo and bras coupé: malign machinations, gothic plots -- "Never once but like ripples": on boomeranging trumps, rememory, and the novel as medium. 000315427 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$xAfrican influences. 000315427 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$xAfrican American authors$$xHistory and criticism. 000315427 650_0 $$aAfrican literature$$xAppreciation$$zUnited States. 000315427 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$xHistory and criticism. 000315427 650_0 $$aGothic revival (Literature)$$zUnited States. 000315427 650_0 $$aFables, American$$xHistory and criticism. 000315427 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans in literature. 000315427 650_0 $$aSlavery in literature. 000315427 650_0 $$aEthics in literature. 000315427 651_0 $$aAfrica$$xIn literature. 000315427 85200 $$bgen$$hPS159.A35$$iC37$$i2004 000315427 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:315427$$pGLOBAL_SET 000315427 980__ $$aBIB 000315427 980__ $$aBOOK 000315427 994__ $$aC0$$bISE