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Masters of the Drum: Black Lit/oratures Across the Continuum (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
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Product Description
Masters of the Drum, comprising eight essays and two interviews, examines both celebrated and insufficiently explored Caribbean, African, and African-American lit/orature that asserts the interface between the scribal and the spoken/gestural in Black word art. This "triple play"--engagement with the three principal regions of the Black world--reflects the author's interest in Black comparative studies, wherein the expressions and emphases of the Black Atlantic tradition (Africa and its diasporas) are deeply exposed and revealingly juxtaposed. The book's apparent eclecticism is intended to help flex the boundaries of Black literary and cultural studies in response to the dangers of a narrow construction of the newly canonical and of an overly particularist critical stance.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6578194 in Books
- Published on: 1995-09-30
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 200 pages
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About the Author
ROBERT ELLIOT FOX is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
