Sounding the break [electronic resource] : African American and Caribbean routes of world literature / Jason Frydman.
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TextSeries: New World Studies | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages ; cm.)ISBN: - 9780813935744
- 0813935741
- Literature and history
- African diaspora in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Race in literature
- Caribbean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- 810.9/896073 23
- PS153.N5 F78 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- World literature and antiquity: classical surrogates in W.E.B. Du Bois's black belt -- World literature in hiding: Zora Neale Hurston, biographical criticism, and African diasporic vernacular culture -- Whiteness and world literature: Alejo Carpentier, racial difference, and narrative creolization -- Dialectics of world literature: Derek Walcott between intimacy and iconicity -- Material histories of world literature: intertextuality and Maryse Conde's historical novels -- "Healing" world literature: Toni Morrison's Conflicts of interest -- Conclusion.
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