Reading Africa Into American Literature - Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales

Informationen zum Autor Keith Cartwright, assistant professor of English at Roanoke College in Roanoke, Virginia, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. Klappentext " The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of w Zusammenfassung The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures.

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Keith Cartwright, assistant professor of English at Roanoke College in Roanoke, Virginia, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Cartwright
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2004
• EAN: 9780813190891
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-9089-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies