TY  - BOOK
AU  - M'Baye,Babacar
TI  - The trickster comes west: Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives 
SN  - 9781604733525 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PR9205.05 .M33 2009eb
U1  - 810.9/8960729 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Jackson
PB  - University Press of Mississippi
KW  - Caribbean literature (English)
KW  - Black authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Race identity
KW  - America
KW  - Pan-Africanism in literature
KW  - Slave narratives
KW  - Tricksters in literature
KW  - African diaspora in literature
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literatur
KW  - swd
KW  - Betr�uger (Motiv)
KW  - Civilization
KW  - African influences
KW  - Englisches Sprachgebiet
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - Schwarzafrika
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index; African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters -- Pan-Africanism in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's liberation discourse -- Pan-Africanism in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Africanism and Methodism in the works of Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert -- African and Caribbean patterns in Mary Prince's resistance
N2  - In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. Using an interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy, the book examines the wor
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