Black cultural mythology /

"Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of 'mythology' from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African Diaspora. Temple comprehensively surve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Temple, Christel N. (Author)
Other Authors: Lamousé-Smith, W. Bediako (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Intellectual foundations of black cultural mythology
  • Commemoration intervention
  • Harriet Tubman and aesthetic memorialization
  • Haiti as diaspora-wide mythology
  • Richard Wright's navigation of the antihero
  • Mythical Malcolm in an age of marable
  • Imaginative rights
  • Conclusion. Introducing Africana cultural memory studies.