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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Brenda M Greene |
| ISBN: | 9781443822169 1443822167 |
| OCLC Number: | 636921546 |
| Description: | xv, 175 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Nicolás Guillén : open social concern and subtle artistic mastery / Keith Ellis -- Bringing Nicolás Guillén to the United States : Hughes and Carruthers' transnational performance of the Americas / Katarzyna Jakubiak -- The United States in the poetry of Guillén / Ana Maria Hernandez -- Subjugation and the dark-skinned black female in Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha and Nella Larsen's Quicksand / Natasha Baker -- Different 'ways of seeing' : Caribbean appropriations of The tempest / Jennifer Sparrow -- African-American sources for Senghor's vision of paradise / Janice Spleth -- A daughter's geography : the poetics of diaspora / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- The circle of our dance to Victor Rosa / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Critical mass : a theoretical framework for cultural fusion / Weldon C. Williams III -- The influence of African music in the Americas / Raymond Torres-Santos -- From Africa to the Caribbean : Saracca and nation in Grenada and Carriacou / Merle Collins -- The hip hop artist : reinterpretation of an African tradition / Maria Delongoria and Augustine Okereke. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Brenda M. Greene. |
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"This collection, The Impact of Africa on the Culture of the Americas, is a must read for those teaching courses related to the literature and cultures of the African diaspora and for scholars committed to this research. The writers and scholars in this collection provide a critical lens from which to view the ways in which "Africanisms" present in the poetry, fiction, essays, dance and music in the Americas embody similar themes and patterns. By drawing upon the disciplines of history, sociology, literature, linguistics, music and dance, they offer readers a context for examining the emergence of these shared cultural practices, rituals and traditions of people throughout the African diaspora. Prof. Greene has assembled a group of essays that will offer academics a valuable contribution to African diasporic studies."-Joyce E. King, Ph.D., Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning & Leadership and Professor of Educational Policy Students, Georgia State University"The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas will be an important contribution to Africana belles letters because of its interdisciplinarity. As Dr. Daisy Cocco De Fillippis indicates in the foreword, The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas captures the ebullient spirit of scholars from seven institutions engaged in an intercampus discussion on the impact of Africa in the Americas. Their essays reinforce the linkages wrought by the African presence among the many diverse cultures of the Americas. While Dr. Brenda Greene in the introduction notes at least seven disciplines represented by the writers, she also emphasizes the common themes that they share. The organization of the book-its fourteen chapters and division into four sections-provides diverse approaches to teaching the text to college students. As a Caribbeanist and Professor of English, I welcome this book to further the conversation began in the comparable texts edited and published between 1993 and 2006 by Joseph Harris, Isidore Okpewho & Carole Boyce Davies, Sheila Walker, Genevieve Fabre & Klaus Benesch, and Michael Gomez." -Dr. Jacqueline Brice-Finch, Acting Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Coppin State University Read more...
