Water and African American memory : an ecocritical perspective / Anissa Janine Wardi.
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TextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource ([ix], 179 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813040509
- 0813040507
- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- African Americans in literature
- African diaspora in literature
- Water in literature
- Water in motion pictures
- Ecocriticism
- Roman américain -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique
- Noirs américains dans la littérature
- Africains -- Pays étrangers, dans la littérature
- Eau dans la littérature
- Eau au cinéma
- Écocritique
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- African Americans in literature
- African diaspora in literature
- American fiction -- African American authors
- Ecocriticism
- Water in literature
- Water in motion pictures
- Literatur
- Wasser Motiv
- Schwarze
- Ecocriticism
- USA
- Schwarze
- Literatur
- Wasser
- Ecocriticism
- USA
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- PS153.N5 W344 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167) and index.
Introduction. African American watersheds -- Between breath and death: transatlantic memory in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust -- Arteries of the nation: rivers of redemption in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Henry Dumas's Ark of bones -- Wetlands, swamps, and bayous: bodies of resistance in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's bayou and Toni Morrison's Tar baby -- Conclusion. Mud, blood, and the blues: Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters of the African diaspora.
Offers the first sustained treatise on watercourses in the African American expressive tradition.
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