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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 work of Pan-African trickster icons, such as Leuk (Rabbit), Golo (Monkey), Bouki (Hyena), Mbe (Tortoise), and Anancy (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's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), Olaudah Equiano's The 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's The 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 West relocates 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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William Albert
reviewed The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives on January 07, 2012
The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives
I picked this up at the library and read chapters that were interesting to me this afternoon. It is a decent survey, but maybe attempts to cover to broad of a time-span to be useful for much. The introductions to each excerpt tend to be about as long as the excerpt itself, which could be good or bad depending on what you are looking for. I like books like this, because they sometimes help me find whole books I want to read. There was a reader on literature of the great depression that was really good and organized like this, but I think this book would be better if it was more focused on a particular era, smaller than the 20th century.
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