Black cultural mythology. / Christel N. Temple ; foreword by Willie Bediako Lamousé-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Temple, Christel N., author.

Contributor:

Lamousé-Smith, W. Bediako, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York State : SUNY Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of 'mythology' from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African Diaspora. Temple comprehensively surveys over two hundred years of figures, moments, texts, and ideas to map an expansive yet broadly overlooked intellectual tradition of Black cultural mythology and to provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing this tradition, including canonical works by writers such as Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison. Black Cultural Mythology at once reorients and stabilizes the emergent field of Africana Cultural Memory Studies while also staging a much broader intervention, challenging scholars across disciplines--from literary and cultural studies history, sociology, and beyond--to embrace a more organic vocabulary to articulate the vitality of Africana survival and achievement"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intellectual foundations of black cultural mythology

Commemoration intervention

Harriet Tubman and aesthetic memorialization

Haiti as diaspora-wide mythology

Richard Wright's navigation of the antihero

Mythical Malcolm in an age of marable

Imaginative rights

Conclusion. Introducing Africana cultural memory studies.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438477893

1438477899