Water and African American memory : an ecocritical perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wardi, Anissa Janine, 1969-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]
Subjects:	Ecocriticism. Water in motion pictures. Water in literature. African diaspora in literature. African Americans in literature. American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction. African American watersheds
Between breath and death: transatlantic memory in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust
Arteries of the nation: rivers of redemption in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Henry Dumas's Ark of bones
Wetlands, swamps, and bayous: bodies of resistance in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's bayou and Toni Morrison's Tar baby
Conclusion. Mud, blood, and the blues: Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters of the African diaspora.