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9781604732337

The Trickster Comes West: Pan-african Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives

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    9781604732337

  • ISBN10:

    1604732334

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-05-12
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

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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 Narrativesexplores 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 work of Pan-African trickster icons, such asLeuk(Rabbit),Golo(Monkey),Bouki(Hyena),Mbe(Tortoise), andAnancy(Spider), on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression.Works discussed in this book include Phillis Wheatley’sPoems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral(1773), Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’sThoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery(1787), Olaudah Equiano’sThe Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano(1795), Elizabeth Hart Thwaites’s History of Methodism” (1804), Anne Hart Gilbert’s History of Methodism” (1804), and Mary Prince’sThe History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related By Herself(1831). Analyzing these writings in the context of the black Atlantic struggle for freedom,The Trickster Comes Westrelocates the beginnings of Pan-Africanism and suggests the strong influence of its theories of communal resistance, racial solidarity, and economic development on pioneering black narratives.

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