A spirit of dialogue: incarnations of Ogbanje, the born-to-die, in African American literature
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| Формат: | Print |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Проверить наличие: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
Knoxville, Tenn.
The University of Tennessee Press
[2008]
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| В: | Год: 2008 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
USA
/ Негр (мотив)
/ Литература (мотив)
/ Анимизм (мотив) (Мотив)
/ Смерть (мотив) (Мотив)
B Nigeria / Литература (мотив) / Анимизм (мотив) (Мотив) / Смерть (мотив) (Мотив) |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
English literature 20th century
History and criticism
B English literature History and criticism 20th century B Myth in literature B Mourning customs in literature B African Americans Intellectual life B African Americans in literature B American literature African American authors History and criticism B Death in literature |
| Примечание: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction: an aesthetic (re)mark on the spirit child -- Ogbanje and Abiku: contexts, conceptualizations, and two West African literary archetypes -- Chinua Achebe, the (neo)slave narrative, the nationalist aesthetic, and African American (re)visions of the spirit child -- Of power, protest, and revolution: wild seed and mind of my mind -- Binary nativity, subjectivity, and the wages of (in)fidelity to "origins": The between -- Mediating character, theme, and narration: "Ogbanje" as hermeneutics in the cattle killing -- Sula, Beloved, and the constructive synchrony of good and evil -- Epilogue: this blues called Ogbanje |
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| Объем: | xxv, 266 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 1572336153 |
