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the trickster comes west pan african influence in early black diasporan narratives
p in the past scholars have looked at narratives of the african diaspora only to discover how these memoirs poems and fictions related to the west . the trickster comes west pan african influence in early black diasporan narratives explores relationships among african american afro caribbean and afro british narratives of slavery and of new world and british oppression and what african influences brought to these diasporic expressions . p using an interdisciplinary method that combines history literary theory cultural studies anthropology folklore and philosophy the book examines the work of pan african trickster icons such as leuk rabbit golo monkey bouki hyena mbe tortoise and anancy spider on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery racism sexism economic exploitation and other forms of oppression . p works discussed in this book include phillis wheatleys poems on various subjects religious and moral 1773 quobna ottobah cugoanos thoughts and sentiments on the evil of slavery 1787 olaudah equianos the interesting narrative of the life of olaudah equiano 1795 elizabeth hart thwaitess history of methodism 1804 anne hart gilberts history of methodism 1804 and mary princes the history of mary prince a west indian slave related by herself 1831 . analyzing these writings in the context of the black atlantic struggle for freedom the trickster comes west relocates the beginnings of pan africanism and suggests the strong influence of its theories of communal resistance racial solidarity and economic development on pioneering black narratives .
hardcover university press of mississippi 2009 isbn13 9781604732337 isbn10 1604732334
abridged n isbn 13 9781604732337 number in series 1 number of pages 247 publisher univ pr of mississippi release date 62135769600000