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Reading Africa into American literature: Senegambian roots, Creole routes, garrulous ghosts.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reading Africa into American literature: Senegambian roots, Creole routes, garrulous ghosts./
Author:	Cartwright, Keith Allen.
Description:	372 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-09, Section: A, page: 3522.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-09A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9810801
ISBN:	059161393X

Reading Africa into American literature: Senegambian roots, Creole routes, garrulous ghosts.
Cartwright, Keith Allen.

Reading Africa into American literature: Senegambian roots, Creole routes, garrulous ghosts. - 372 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-09, Section: A, page: 3522.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1997.

Attempts to define American expressive traditions as European cultural creations in a New World environment are inadequate, for such descriptions ignore or misrepresent the profoundly Africa-informed mixtures of peoples that shaped America's colonial foundations. African sources provide components--along with those from traditionally acknowledged European sources--integral to an understanding of the growth and evolution of American (U.S.) literature. Specifically, Senegambian epic, folktales, and Arabic manuscripts provide paradigms for reading American writers who have made claims to African ancestry or those who have found assumptions of African inferiority troubled by the presence of "noble" or literate Senegambian slaves. From close reading of the Mande Sunjata epic, we see that some of the aesthetics and cultural practices of the epic migrated to America and contributed to black vernacular expressive traditions, traditions which have provided pathways through which several writers of epic impulse (Du Bois, Toomer, Hurston, Haley, and Morrison) engage African ancestry. A second group of readings, informed by Senegambian folk narratives and by studies of the process of creolization, highlights the degree to which white creoles such as Joel Chandler Harris, Susan Petigru King, Alfred Mercier, Julia Peterkin, and William Faulkner found artistic grounding in Afro-creole "spiritual soil." Three final chapters demonstrate how Africanist response to exceptional Senegambians (in texts by William A. Caruthers, Herman Melville, George W. Cable, and others) created and engaged gothic shadows of Africans--haunting forces that continue to emerge from the other side of freedom (slavery), the other side of civilization (savagery), the other side of innocence (experience or guilt) in 20th-century works by Faulkner, Ellison, Morrison, and Charles Johnson. A foundational Afro-creole presence is a strong source of American identity and voice. West African traditions moved through Afro-Southern repertoires to shape the ways all Americans present themselves. However, recognition of the process of American creolization remains tied to--and limited by--Africanist racial legacies (creolizing forces themselves) that enabled chattel slavery and that continue to shape racialized configurations of identity and power. A complex range of responses to America's "Africanity" lies at the roots of American literature.

ISBN: 059161393XSubjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Reading Africa into American literature: Senegambian roots, Creole routes, garrulous ghosts.
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