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Title When Brer Rabbit meets Coyote : African-Native American literature / edited by Jonathan Brennan.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2003.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9896 W567W    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents On the interaction of traditions / David Elton Gay -- Brer Rabbit and his Cherokee cousin / Sandra K. Baringer -- Briton Hammon, the Indian captivity narrative and the African American slave narrative / John Sekora -- Recapturing John Marant / Benilde Montgomery -- Speaking across boundaries / Jonathan Brennan -- In search of the Mardi Gras Indians / Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose, and Tad Jones -- Mardi Gras Indians, carnival and counter-narrative in Black New Orleans / George Lipsitz -- Wrapped in the serpent's tail, Alice Walker's African-native American subjectivity / Patricia Riley -- If you know I have a history, you will respect me / Sharon P. Holland -- African-Native American subjectivity and the blues voice in the writings of Toni Morrison and Sherman Alexie / Paul Pasquaretta.
Summary The diverse essays cover a range of literatures from African-Native American mythology among the Seminoles and mixed folktales among the Cherokee to autobiography, fiction, poetry, and captivity narratives. Contributors discuss, among other topics, the Brer Rabbit tales and the "creolization" of African American and Native American mythologies and religions. Also considered are Alice Walker's development of an African-Native American identity in her fiction and essays and African-Native American subjectivity in the works of Toni Morrison and Sherman Alexie.
Subject Indians of North America -- Folklore.
African Americans in literature.
Folklore in literature.
African Americans -- Folklore.
Indians in literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Comparative literature -- African American and Indian.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Folklore.
Subject American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
Comparative literature -- Indian and African American.
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.
Literature and folklore -- United States.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Intellectual life.
American literature -- Indigenous authors -- History and criticism.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Added Author Brennan, Jonathan.
ISBN 0252028198
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