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Allegory and meaning : reading African, African American, and Caribbean literature
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Allegory and meaning : reading African, African American, and Caribbean literature / Ikenna Dieke.
ISBN
9780761851219
0761851216
Published
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010.
Physical Description
184 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 04, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-179) and index.
Contents
Bessie Head's Maru : existential allegory, pathology of difference, and the quest for conscience
Masada as symbol in Season of anomy
Soyinka : from failed Narcissus to heroic Orphism
Awoonor, Okigbo, and Soyinka : Nostos, symbolism, and prima donnas
Baraka, Marquis de Sade, and the individual will
Baraka and the allegoric meaning of the tragic spirit
Baraka, America, and the allegory of racial sin
Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha : narrative as allegory of initiation
Redemptive fantasy and allegory of the endtime
A cosmic postulate of Eros : reading Harris's Palace of the peacock
A woman transfigured : reading Derek Walcott and Wilson Harris.
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