Christel N. Temple

Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise

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Produktbeschreibung

Framing the concept of transcendence, this study covers over a dozen traditional African American works in an original and thought-provoking analysis that places canonical approaches in enlightened discourse with Africana studies reader-response priorities.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Africana Studies
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781498545105
• ISBN-10: 1498545106
• Artikelnr.: 58502727

Autorenporträt

By Christel N. Temple - Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Canon and the Africana Worldview
1. Literary Africology
2. Twentieth Century Black Lives Mattered: Male Mortality in The Souls of
Black Folk and The Living Is Easy
3. "Can't the Race Stand a Joke": Humor and Pan-African Folk Negotiation in
Banjo
4. Africana Literary Methods and the Bibliographic Shift in Iola Leroy and
The Street
5. Autobiography and Documentary Forms of Here I Stand as Black Cultural
Mythology
6. A Raisin in the Sun and the Tradition of Literary Pan-Africanism
7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and the Demographic Literary Standard
8. The Parable of the Sower's Earthseed as Black Liberation Theology
9. Self-Eulogy as Prophetic Afro-Futurism in Narratives of John Henrik
Clarke and Malcolm X
10. Maat and the Psychology of Justice in the Morrisonesque Community of
Perfect Peace
11. Beyoncé? No. Lauryn Hill? Yes: Interludes of Womanist Hip Hop and the
Traditional Activist Genre
12. Broadway as Text: Africana History on Stage in Hamilton and Aida
13. Image and Verse, Music and Media: Diasporic Performance of Cultural
Memory
Conclusion: An Atmosphere of Freedom