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Masters of the Drum Black Lit/oratures Across the Continuum

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By Robert Elliot Fox

ISBN: 0-313-29296-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29296-5

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200 pages, figures

Greenwood Press

Publication: 9/30/1995

List Price: $107.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies

Series Number: 175

Description: Masters of the Drum, comprising eight essays and two interviews, examines both celebrated and insufficiently explored Caribbean, African, and African-American lit/orature that asserts the interface between the scribal and the spoken/gestural in Black word art. This "triple play"--engagement with the three principal regions of the Black world--reflects the author's interest in Black comparative studies, wherein the expressions and emphases of the Black Atlantic tradition (Africa and its diasporas) are deeply exposed and revealingly juxtaposed. The book's apparent eclecticism is intended to help flex the boundaries of Black literary and cultural studies in response to the dangers of a narrow construction of the newly canonical and of an overly particularist critical stance.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modality, in Continuum
Drumtalk: Black Rhetorics, Black Rhythms, Black Writings
Wayfaring Roots
To Reveal and to Heal: Some Thoughts on African-American Literature and Criticism Since the Sixties
Blacking the Zero: Toward a Semiotics of Neo-Hoodoo
Blue Syntaxophones: The Poetry of Bob Kaufman
Vibration Positive
Derek Walcott: History as Dis-ease
Re/Vision and Resistance in Caribbean Women's Writing
Working Toward the Light: A Conversation with Lorna Goodison
Set Your Minds to Africa
The Untold Stories in Armah's Why Are We So Blest?
Theory and Its Discontents: An African Instance
Occupying Ambiguous Territory: A Conversation with Nuruddin Farah
Index

LC Card Number: 94-29836

LCC Class: PS153

Dewey Class: 810.9


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