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Water and African American memory : an ecocritical perspective / Anissa Janine Wardi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wardi, Anissa Janine, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- African Americans in literature.
- African diaspora in literature.
- Water in literature.
- Water in motion pictures.
- Ecocriticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offers the first sustained treatise on watercourses in the African American expressive tradition.
- Contents:
- Introduction. African American watersheds
- Between breath and death: transatlantic memory in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust
- Arteries of the nation: rivers of redemption in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Henry Dumas's Ark of bones
- Wetlands, swamps, and bayous: bodies of resistance in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's bayou and Toni Morrison's Tar baby
- Conclusion. Mud, blood, and the blues: Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters of the African diaspora.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4234-8
- 0-8130-4050-7
- OCLC:
- 757828921
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