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The Hammers of Creation - Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction

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Informationen zum Autor ERIC J. SUNDQUIST is UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America and To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature . Klappentext In The Hammers of Creation, Eric J. Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African-American novels of the early twentieth century: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, and Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder. Sundquist explains how the survival of cultural traditions originating in Africa and in slavery became a means of historical reflection and artistic creation for modern writers. He goes on to illustrate and compare the ways in which the three representative novels use aspects of African-American culture, including the folklore of slavery, black music from spirituals to jazz, black worship and sermonic form, and African-American resistance to slavery and segregation. The Hammers of Creation focuses on the unique narrative form of each of the three novels - Johnson's fictive autobiography, Hurston's ethnographic commentary combined with personal narrative, and Bontemps's historical fiction based on Gabriel's slave rebellion - to illustrate the range of fictional strategies black writers have employed. Through their attempts to gain cultural integrity, Sundquist explains, these writers were able to recover and preserve vital aspects of African-American history. Sundquist argues that by incorporating vernacular culture and the oral tradition into their works, Johnson, Hurston, and Bontemps challenge the primacy of written narrative while creating an African-American literary tradition that links the world of African ancestors and antebellum culture to the world of contemporary letters. Zusammenfassung Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African-American novels of the early twentieth century: James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine, and Arna Bontemps’s Black Thunder....

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Authors Eric Sundquist, Eric J Sundquist, Eric J. Sundquist
Publisher The University of Georgia Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.03.2006
 
EAN 9780820327945
ISBN 978-0-8203-2794-5
No. of pages 151
Dimensions 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
Series Mercer University Lamar Memori
Mercer University Lamar Memori
Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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