When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American LiteratureJonathan Brennan University of Illinois Press, 2003 - 307 Seiten An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African American and Native American descent, When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote is the first book to theorize an African-Native American literary tradition. In examining this overlooked tradition, the book prompts a reconsideration of interracial relations in American history and literature. Jonathan Brennan, in a sweeping historical and analytical introduction to this collection of essays, surveys several centuries of literature in the context of the historical and cultural exchange and development of distinct African-Native American traditions. Positing a new African-Native American literary theory, he illuminates the roles subjectivity, situational identities, and strategic discourse play in defining African-Native American literatures. Brennan provides a thorough background to the literary tradition and a valuable overview to topics discussed in the essays. He examines African-Native American political and historical texts, travel narratives, and the Mardi Gras Indian tradition, suggesting that this evolving oral tradition parallels the development of numerous Black Indian literary traditions in the United States and Latin America. |
Inhalt
Recognition of the African | 1 |
David Elton Gay | 101 |
Moving Beyond | 114 |
Briton Hammon the Indian Captivity Narrative and | 141 |
Benilde Montgomery | 158 |
A NineteenthCentury | 168 |
In Search of the Mardi Gras Indians | 197 |
Carnival and Counternarrative | 218 |
CONTEMPORARY AFRICANNATIVE AMERICAN | 239 |
AfricanNative American Subjectivity and the Blues Voice | 278 |
Contributors | 293 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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