La Vinia Delois Jennings

Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An original study of the importance of West African religious symbols used in Morrison's fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780521885041
• ISBN-10: 0521885043
• Artikelnr.: 23183696

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: finding the elusive but identifiable blackness within the culture out of which Toni Morrison writes
2. Kongo's Yowa and Dahomey's Vodun: the survival of West African traditional cosmologies in African America
3. Bandoki: witches, ambivalent power, and the fusion of good and evil
4. Kanda: living elders, the ancestral presence, and the ancestor as foundation
5. Banganga: the specialists-medicine (wo)men and priest(esse)s
6. Identifiable blackness: Toni Morrison's literary canon at the Western crossroads
Works cited
Index.