Allegory and meaning : reading African, African American, and Caribbean literature /
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Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
c2010.
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100 | 1 | |a Dieke, Ikenna, |d 1949- | |
245 | 0 | 0 | |a Allegory and meaning : |b reading African, African American, and Caribbean literature / |c Ikenna Dieke. |
260 | |a Lanham, Md. : |b University Press of America, |c c2010. | ||
300 | |a 184 p. ; |c 23 cm. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-179) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
590 | |a December10eng | ||
598 | |a 01-DEC-10 |z 15-FEB-11 | ||
650 | 0 | |a Allegory. | |
650 | 0 | |a Literature |x Black authors |x History and criticism. | |
994 | |a C0 |b PVU | ||
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952 | f | f | |p Default |a Villanova University |b Villanova PA |c Falvey Memorial Library |d Falvey Main Stacks |t 0 |e PN841 .D545 2010 |h Library of Congress classification |i Book |m 39346009776990 |n 1 |