The Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970-2000 Specters of the Shore

This book offers a new approach to reading the cultural memory of Africa in African American fiction from the post-Civil Rights era and in Black British fiction emerging in the wake of Thatcherism. The critical period between the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and the dawn of the twenty-first...

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Autor principal: Kamali, Leila (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2016.
Colección:Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict.
Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37576847*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 ‘Drumbeats From The Aeons’: Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo
  • 3 ‘Solomon’s Leap’: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
  • 4 ‘Worse Than Unwelcome’: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
  • 5 ‘Something About The Silence’: John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire
  • 6 ‘Words Without Sound’: Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River
  • 7 Circular Talk’: S.I. Martin’s Incomparable World
  • 8 ‘Awakening to the Singing’: Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara
  • 9 ‘I Can Change Memory’: David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress
  • 10 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.