Masters of the drum : Black lit/oratures across the continuum
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Masters of the drum : Black lit/oratures across the continuum
（Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no.175）
Greenwood Press, 1995
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Masters of the Drum, comprising eight essays and two interviews, examines both celebrated and insufficiently explored Caribbean, African, and African-American lit/orature that asserts the interface between the scribal and the spoken/gestural in Black word art. This triple play-engagement with the three principal regions of the Black world-reflects the author's interest in Black comparative studies, wherein the expressions and emphases of the Black Atlantic tradition (Africa and its diasporas) are deeply exposed and revealingly juxtaposed. The book's apparent eclecticism is intended to help flex the boundaries of Black literary and cultural studies in response to the dangers of a narrow construction of the newly canonical and of an overly particularist critical stance.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Modality, in Continuum Drumtalk: Black Rhetorics, Black Rhythms, Black Writings Wayfaring Roots To Reveal and to Heal: Some Thoughts on African-American Literature and Criticism Since the Sixties Blacking the Zero: Toward a Semiotics of Neo-Hoodoo Blue Syntaxophones: The Poetry of Bob Kaufman Vibration Positive Derek Walcott: History as Dis-ease Re/Vision and Resistance in Caribbean Women's Writing Working Toward the Light: A Conversation with Lorna Goodison Set Your Minds to Africa The Untold Stories in Armah's Why Are We So Blest? Theory and Its Discontents: An African Instance Occupying Ambiguous Territory: A Conversation with Nuruddin Farah Index
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