The Black Columbiad : defining moments in African American literature and culture
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The Black Columbiad : defining moments in African American literature and culture
（Harvard English studies, 19）
Harvard University Press, 1994
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ISBN 9780674076174
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After a long and painful transatlantic passage, African captives reached a continent they hadn't even known existed, where they were treated in ways that broke every law of civilization as they understood it. This was the discovery of America for a good number of her ancestors, one quite different from the "paradise" Columbus heralded but no less instrumental in shaping the country's history. What finding the New World meant to those who never sought it, and how they made the hostile, unfamiliar continent their own, is the subject of this volume, an international collection of essays on African-American literature and culture. Distinguished scholars, critics and writers from around the world examine a great variety of moments that have defined the African-American experience. What were the values, images and vocabulary that accompanied African "explorers" on their terrifying Columbiad, and what new forms did they develop to re-invent America from a black perspective? How did an extremely heterogeneous group of African pioneers remake themselves as African Americans?
The authors search out answers in such diverse areas as slavery, gender, Paris, periodicals, festive moments, a Berlin ethnologist, Afrocentrism, Mark Twain, Spain, "Casablanca", orality, the 1960s, Black-Jewish relations, television images, comedy and magic. William Wells Brown, Frank Webb, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Etheridge Knight, Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Charles Johnson are among the many writers they discuss in detail. The result, a landmark text in African-American studies, reveals, within a broader context than ever before, the unpredictable variety of complex cultural forces that have been at work in black America.
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Description
After a long and painful transatlantic passage, African captives reached a continent they hadn't even known existed, where they were treated in ways that broke every law of civilization as they understood it. This was the discovery of America for a good number of our ancestors, one quite different from the "paradise" Columbus heralded but no less instrumental in shaping the country's history. What finding the New World meant to those who never sought it, and how they made the hostile, unfamiliar continent their own, is the subject of this volume, the first truly international collection of essays on African American literature and culture.
Distinguished scholars, critics, and writers from around the world gather here to examine a great variety of moments that have defined the African American experience. What were the values, images, and vocabulary that accompanied African "explorers" on their terrifying Columbiad, and what new forms did they develop to re-invent America from a black perspective? How did an extremely heterogeneous group of African pioneers remake themselves as African Americans? The authors search out answers in such diverse areas as slavery, the transatlantic tradition, urbanization, rape and lynching, gender, Paris, periodicals, festive moments, a Berlin ethnologist, Afrocentrism, Mark Twain, Spain, Casablanca, orality, the 1960s, Black-Jewish relations, television images, comedy, and magic. William Wells Brown, Frank Webb, W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Etheridge Knight, Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Charles Johnson are among the many writers they discuss in detail. The result, a landmark text in African American studies, reveals, within a broader context than ever before, the great and often unpredictable variety of complex cultural forces that have been at work in black America.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Conceiving blackness: the cousins of Uncle Remus, Isidore Okpewho
- post-colonialism and afrocentricity - discourse and dat course, Ann duCille
- sea change - the middle passage and transatlantic imagination, Carl Pederson
- festive moments in Antebellum African American culture, Genevieve Fabre
- sex, Salem, and slave trials - ritual drama and ceremony of innocence, Wilson J. Moses
- a spy in the enemy's country - domestic slaves as internal foes, Annalucia Accardi and Alessandro Portelli
- the slave narrative and the Picaresque novel, Stefania Piccinato
- the fugitive self and the new world of the north - William Wells Brown's discovery of America, Christopher Mulvey
- Frank J. Webb - the shift to colour discrimination, Rosemary F. Crockett
- Paris as a moment in African American consciousness, Michel Fabre. Part 2 Sources of modern African American cultural authority: "The Sorrow Songs" / "Song of Myself" - du Bois, the crisis of leadership, and prophetic imagination, Shamoon Zamir
- black stars, the red star, and the blues, Josef Jarab
- from Berlin to Harlem - Felix von Luschan, Alain Locke, and the new negro, Malgorzata Irek
- the change of literary authority in the Harlem renaissance - Jean Toomer's "Cane", Friedrike Hajek
- Zora Neale Hurston's "Autobiographie Fictive" - dark tracks on the canon of a female writer, Paola Boi
- black cupids, white desires - reading the recoding of racial difference in "Casablanca", Robert Gooding-Williams
- para usted - Richard Wright's "Pagan Spain", M. Lyyn Weiss
- coming of age - the modernity of postwar black American writing, Sigmund Ro
- "black Herman comes through only once in every seven years" - black magic, white magic, and American culture, Gerald Early. Part 3 Defining moments since the 1960s: Chicago poets, OBAC, and the black arts movement, David Lionel Smith
- around 1969 - televisual representation and the complication of the black subject, Phillip Brian Harper
- voice as lifesaver - defining the function of orality in Etheridge Knight's poetry, Ugo Rubeo
- predicaments of skin - boundaries in recent African American fiction, Fritz Guson
- "What you lookin' at?" Ishmael Reed's "Reckless Eyeballing", Jeffrey Melnick
- lynching and rape - border cases in African American history and fiction, Katrin Schwenk
- dialogue possession in Ishmael Reed's "Mumbo Jumbo" - Bakhtin, voodoo, and the materiality of multicultural discourse, Sami Ludwig
- "you like huckleberries?" Tony Morrison's "Beloved" and Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Sylvia Mayer (PART CONTENTS)
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