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BL
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989610
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b743980
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| Main Entry
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M'Baye, Babacar,1967-
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| Title & Author
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The trickster comes west : : Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives /\ Babacar M'Baye.
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| Publication Statement
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Jackson :: University Press of Mississippi,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (x, 247 pages)
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| ISBN
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1604733527
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: 9781604733525
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1604732334
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9781604732337
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index.
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| Contents
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African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters -- Pan-Africanism in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's liberation discourse -- Pan-Africanism in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Africanism and Methodism in the works of Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert -- African and Caribbean patterns in Mary Prince's resistance.
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| Abstract
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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 Narratives explores 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 wor.
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African diaspora in literature.
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American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
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Blacks-- Race identity-- America.
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Caribbean literature (English)-- Black authors-- History and criticism.
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Pan-Africanism in literature.
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Slave narratives-- History and criticism.
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Slavery in literature.
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Tricksters in literature.
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African diaspora in literature
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American literature-- African American authors
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Betrüger
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Blacks-- Race identity
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Civilization-- African influences
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literatur
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Pan-Africanism in literature
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Slave narratives
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Slavery in literature
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Slavery.
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Tricksters in literature
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America, Civilization, African influences.
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America
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Englisches Sprachgebiet
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Schwarze.
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/8960729
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PR9205.05.M33 2009eb
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