Legba's Crossing : Narratology in the African Atlantic.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Critical Paradigms in Race, Nation, and Narratology -- Part One. Interruptions -- 1. Race, Citizenship, and Form: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- 2. The Poetics of Biomythography: The Work of Audre Lorde -- Part Two. Disruptions -- 3. Race, Nation, and the Imagination: Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven -- 4. Jazz Imaginings of the Nation-State: Earl Lovelace's Salt -- Part Three. Eruptions -- 5. Dis-ease, De-formity, and Diaspora: John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing -- Conclusion: Dialectics of Globalization, Development, and Discourse -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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