Gregory E Rutledge

The Epic Trickster in American Literature

From Sunjata to So(u)l

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Produktbeschreibung

Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781138107854
• ISBN-10: 1138107859
• Artikelnr.: 57051531

Autorenporträt

Gregory E. Rutledge is Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, US. His teaching and research interests are American literature and culture, Afro-futurism, critical race theory, and Afro-Orientalism. He has published scholarship, reviews, reference pieces, fiction, and poetry in African-American Review and Modern Fiction Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Introduction 2. Introduction to West/Central African Epic 3.
Epic Performance in the American Epic Diaspora 4. All Green with Epic
Potential: Chesnutt Goes to the Marrow of Tradition to Re-Construct
America's Epic Body 5. Native Son. Global Warming, Nuclear Winter, and
Katrina's "Folk": African Epic and the Ecological Implications of Wright's
"Blue[s]print" 6. A Beloved, "Ten Times Better" Community: The Epic
Trickster and Morrison's post-Civil Rights Common/Sense 7. Conclusion