The trickster comes west

M'Baye, Babacar, 1967-

The trickster comes west Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives / [electronic resource] : Babacar M'Baye. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009. - x, 247 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Blacks--Race identity--America.
Pan-Africanism in literature.
Slave narratives--History and criticism.
Tricksters in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Slavery in literature.


America--Civilization--African influences.


Electronic books.

PR9205.05 / .M33 2009eb

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