Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American LiteratureUniversity of Illinois Press, 1987 - 182 sider "Often considered alienated from mainstream culture and consigned to negative environments, Afro-American writers have created alternative spatial and geographical metaphors to develop a positive sense of individual and cultural identity. Melvin Dixon demonstrates how three principal figures of the land--the wilderness, the underground, and the mountaintop--have become places of refuge and cultural revitalization for the performance of identity, from early slave songs and fugitive narratives to modern and contemporary fiction"--Jacket. |
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Preface xi | 11 |
Jean Toomer | 31 |
Richard Wright Ralph Ellison | 56 |
Zora Neale Hurston | 83 |
James Baldwin | 123 |
Toni Morrison | 141 |
Bibliography | 171 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Afro-American Ajax Alice Walker American Arthur Baldwin's Banjo becomes Bita blues Cane Celie characters Cholly Claude McKay Clay Corregidora cultural Daniels's deliverance Douglass Eatonville Ellison's escape Eva's father feel fiction flight Fred Daniels freedom fugitive Gabriel Gayl Jones geography Grange Guitar Harlem Henry Bibb hibernation human Hurston's identity images invisible James Baldwin Janie Janie's Jean Toomer John John's Jones's journey Kabnis Kabnis's land landscape language literary Lula Macon McKay's Meridian metaphor Milkman MOMG moral Morrison's mountain mountaintop Mutt Nanny's narrative narrator Negro novel offers Pecola performance Pheoby Pilate porch protagonist racial Ray's readers refuge religion reveals Richard Wright sexual Shug singing slave narratives slave songs slavery Song of Solomon South space spiritual story Sula Sula's Tea Cake tell Todd Toni Morrison Toomer Ursa Ursa's voice wilderness woman women Wright writers York Zora Neale Zora Neale Hurston