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The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction de Eric J. Sundquist

The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures

Autor Eric J. Sundquist
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2006
Provides an analysis of the powerful role played by folk culture in 3 major African American novels of the early 20th century: "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man", "Jonah's Gourd Vine", and "Black Thunder". This book explains how the survival of cultural traditions originating in Africa and in slavery became a means of historical reflection.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780820327945
ISBN-10: 0820327948
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: University of Georgia Press
Seriile Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures

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In The Hammers of Creation, Eric J. Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African-American novels of the early twentieth century: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, and Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder. Sundquist explains how the survival of cultural traditions originating in Africa and in slavery became a means of historical reflection and artistic creation for modern writers. He goes on to illustrate and compare the ways in which the three representative novels use aspects of African-American culture, including the folklore of slavery, black music from spirituals to jazz, black worship and sermonic form, and African-American resistance to slavery and segregation. The Hammers of Creation focuses on the unique narrative form of each of the three novels - Johnson's fictive autobiography, Hurston's ethnographic commentary combined with personal narrative, and Bontemps's historical fiction based on Gabriel's slave rebellion - to illustrate the range of fictional strategies black writers have employed. Through their attempts to gain cultural integrity, Sundquist explains, these writers were able to recover and preserve vital aspects of African-American history. Sundquist argues that by incorporating vernacular culture and the oral tradition into their works, Johnson, Hurston, and Bontemps challenge the primacy of written narrative while creating an African-American literary tradition that links the world of African ancestors and antebellum culture to the world of contemporary letters.

Notă biografică

ERIC J. SUNDQUIST is UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America and To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature.