Emerging Afrikan Survivals - An Afrocentric Critical Theory

Informationen zum Autor Kemayo Kamau Klappentext First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung This work sets forth the guidelines for an Afrocentric literary theory and applies that theory to three novels: "Invisible Man", "Song of Solomon" and "The Chaneysville Incident". Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: An Afrocentric Critical Theory 1. Introduction 2. Historical Situatedness and African American Culture 3. Change and Cultural Representation in African American Literary Criticism 4. Recent Directions in African American Literary Criticism: Toward an African Poetics Part II: Application of the Afrocentric Critical Theory 5. Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon 6. David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident 7. Invisible Man 8. A Review of Contemporary African American Novels 9. Conclusion

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• Authors: Kemayo Kamau, Kamau Kemayo, Kamau Kemayo
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2003
• EAN: 9780415945820
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94582-0
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Studies in African American History and Culture; Studies in African American Hi; Studies in African American History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Ethnic Studies, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General