Author

Publication

2007-12-15 - Ohio State University Press

Language

English

Word Count

40,500 words, Guess

Page Count

162 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780814210710
  • Open LibraryOL11352735M

Classifications

  • LCCPS374.N4 A36 2007
  • LCCPS374.N4A36 2007

Description

"In Folklore in New World Black Fiction, Chiji Akoma offers an interpretive model for the reading of the African New World novel focusing on folklore, not as an igredient, but as the basis for the narratives. The works examined do not contain folklore materials; they are folklore, constituted by the intersections of African oral narrative aesthetics, New World sensibility, and the written tradition. Specifically Akoma looks at four African Caribbean and African American novelists, Roy A.K. Heath, Wilson Harris, Toni Morrison, and Jean Toomer."--Jacket.

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  • Folklore in New World Black FictionHardcoverOhio State University Press2007-12-15

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