Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature

Index

Allende, Isabel, 80 Amado, Jorge, 78 American exceptionalism in African American discourse, 137–8 American Negro, double life, 24 ancient world: cosmopolitan, 12; Du Bois’s account, 25–6; verbal arts, origins, 26 animal tales of Aristophanes, 93–4 Another Life (Walcott), 84–5 anticolonial Cuban nationalism, 62 antiquity, vernacular figures and, 39–40 Appeal (Walker), 21 Arabic narrative practice, 75–6 Aristophanes, aninal tales, 93–4 Atlas of the European Novel (Moretti), 8–9 autos sacramentales, 78 “Axolotl” (Cortázar), 79 baroque, 78–9 Batouala (Maran), 9–10; oral/written interface, 11 Baugh, Edward, 82 Benjamin, Walter: novels as encounter with death, 106–8; retrospectivity of narrative, 107 Bernal, Martin, Black Athena, 19, 131 Black Arts movement, 120 Black Athena (Bernal), 19 Black Atlantic periodization, 7; narrative of progress, 8 black savant, 27–8; elite education and, 28–9 black solidarity, Paradise (Morrison), 121 Blake (Delany), 37–8 abolitionist literature as literature of the world, 9 adab, 4, 94 Aesop, 93–4 Africa: creolization, 132; Islam in, 56; world literature before European hegemony, 7–8 African American folk culture, 27; surrogation, 32 African American novel, Morrison on, 120 African diaspora: cosmopolitanism, 24–5; culture and orality, 55–6; folk expression, 32; Hurston and, 41–2; literature influences, 9; magical character, 67; marvelous realism, 14; negrismo, 14; oral/performative traditions, 48; verbal hybridity, 55; world literature and, Hurston, 57–8; world literature sedimented, 7; world literature studies, 9; writing, 12 African origins of western civilization, 21–2 African writing, 56 Afrocentricity in Song of Solomon, 125–6 Afro-Cuban scribal register, 71, 73–4 Afro-Cuban youth Menegildo Cué, 64 Afro-Cubans: appropriation of blackness, 65; black Cubans, 64-65; ¡ÉçueYamba -Ó! (Carpentier), 64; folk culture, 63–4 Afro-Hispanic orality, 71 Aithiopika (Heliodorus), 12, 144–5 al-Bustani, Butrus, 4 al-Bustani, Salim, 4 ‘Ali, Idris, Dongola: A Novel of Nubia, 144–5 Index 177 Index chiasmus, Walcott, 86–7 Christian allegory, storytelling and, 135–6 Cicero, Du Bois and, 30–1 civilizational timeline, 21; black origins of western civilization, 21–2 Clark, Vèvè, 13–14; diaspora literacy, 49–50 classical antiquity. See also Greeks: avant-garde modernism and, 39; Du Bois, 19–20; European world-historical ascendance and, 20; Goethe on, 20; The Souls of Black Folks (Du Bois), 26–7 colonial history, 84; Ireland and, 90–1 Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature (Branche), 63 communal rootedness, 120 Condé, Maryse, 6–7, 16, 99. See also Ségou; Creolité, 100–1; Dumas influence, 106; early years, 100; English gothic traditions, 17; European narrative tradition and, 106; genealogies, 16; griot status, 101; Guadaloupe and revenge, 116; Hérémakhonon, 99; La migration des coeurs, 17, 99–100, 110–12; literary historiography, 143; nineteenthcentury French novel and, 105; “Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer,” 119; systemic market forces, 100; A Thousand and One Nights and, 16–17, 105, 108; writing sources, 99 Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, 86–7 Cortázar, Julio, “Axolotl,” 79 cosmopolitan past, 14 cosmopolitanism: African diaspora, 24–5; Los pasos perdidos, 69; vernacular commitments and, 141 Creolité (Condé), genealogy, 100–1 Cuentos Negros de Cuba (Cabrera), 71 Cullen, Countee, “The Dance of Love,” 10 cultural nationalism, Walcott and, 90 cultural nationalist politics, Paradise (Morrison), 18 culture, local, literary form and, 90 Cunard, Nancy, Negro: An Anthology, 48–9 Damrosch, David, 1, 9, 20, 82 “The Dance of Love” (Cullen), 10 “Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas” (Hurston), 52 Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1–2; al-Bustani, Butrus and, 4; al-Bustani, Salim and, 4; Greco-Roman culture, 22; ‘ilm (literature), 4; Kabawee, Ibrahima, and, 3–4; letter translation in The People of Africa, 2–3; Liberia College and, 4–5; Maqamat of al-Hariri, at Liberia College, 4–5; “The Negro in Ancient History,” 22; transnational circuits of intellectual advance, 5–6; From West Africa to Palestine, 5 Boas, Franz, 47, 50, 54 Bolaño, Roberto, Los detectives salvajes, 80–1 book-learning after Emancipation, 30 bourgeois alienation, 122 Boyd, Valerie, Wrapped in Rainbows, 42 Branche, Jerome, Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature, 63 Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, 16–17 Brooks, Peter, Reading for Plot, 106–7 Cabrera, Lydia: Cuentos Negros de Cuba, 71; Refranes de negros viejos, 71 Canto General (Neruda), 89–90 Caribbean: Afro-Caribbean oral-literate traditions, 72–4; drama, 93–5; krikkrak storytelling tradition, 16 Carpentier, Alejo, 6–7; Afro-Caribbean and West African oral-literate traditions, 72–4; appropriations of blackness, 14–15; the baroque, 78...