Black cultural mythology

by Temple, Christel N.

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Full title :Black cultural mythology / Christel N. Temple ; [foreword by Willie Bediako Lamousé-Smith].

Summary

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.

"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"

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SUNY Press
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Physical Object

Description:xxvi, 344 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781438477879, 1438477872, 9781438477886, 1438477880
oclc:on1226449736
LC Classification:PS153.N5
Dewey Decimal:810.9/896073

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