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The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives

The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives

M'Baye, Babacar

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1617032107
ISBN13: 9781617032103
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Aug 19 2011
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How African influences enriched narratives from enslaved and free blacks writing in Britain and the New World 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. Babacar M'Baye is assistant professor of English and Pan-African studies at Kent State University. His work has appeared in Journal of African Literature and Culture, Journal of Pan-African Studies, New England Journal of History, and other publications.

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