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In this study, I argue that existing critical approaches overlook the literary and historical significance of oral and translated emancipatory narratives produced by early Diasporic writers/subjects. I use the term "emancipatory" instead of "slave" narrative because "emancipator…

The seemingly elusive connections between a West African ceremony and a Southern blues scape is this thesis’s central focus. In "Unmasking The Blues: Gẹlẹdẹ And The Creation Of Blues Alchemy," I explore the blues culture phenomena of alchemy (a personal, cultural, collective lib…