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THE HAMMERS OF CREATION
FOLK CULTURE IN MODERN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FICTION |
| By: |
Eric J. Sundquist |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£24.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820314609 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820314600 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1993 |
| Series: |
Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures No. 35 |
| Pages: |
168 |
| Description: |
Analyzes the role of folk culture in three early 20th century African-American novels: "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" by James Weldon Johnson; "Jonah's Gourd Vine" by Zora Neale Hurston; and "Black Thunder" by Arna Bontemps. |
| Synopsis: |
Eric J. Sundquist analyses the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African-American novels of the early 20th century: James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man", Zora Neale Hurston's "Jonah's Gourd Vine", and Arna Bontemps' "Black Thunder". Sundquist explains how the survival of cultural traditions originating in Africa and in slavery became a means of historical reflection and artistic creation for modern writers. He goes on to illustrate and compare the ways in which the three representative novels use aspects of African-American culture, including the folklore of slavery, Black music from spirituals to jazz, Black worship and sermonic form, and African-American resistance to slavery and segregation. "The Hammers of Creation" focuses on the unique narrative form of each of the three novels - Johnson's fictive autobiography, Hurston's ethnographic commentary combined with personal narrative, and Bontemps' historical fiction based on Gabriel's slave rebellion - to illustrate the range of fictional strategies Black writers have employed.Through their attempts to gain cultural integrity, Sundquist explains, these writers were able to recover and preserve vital aspects of African-American history. Sundquist argues that by incorporating vernacular culture and the oral tradition into their works, Johnson, Hurston and Bontemps challenge the primacy of written narrative while creating an African-American literary tradition that links the world of African ancestors and ante-bellum culture to the world of contemporary letters. |
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US |
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University of Georgia Press |
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