[BOOK][B] Ride out the wilderness: Geography and identity in Afro-American literature
M Dixon - 1987 - books.google.com
M Dixon
1987•books.google.com" Often considered alienated from mainstream culture and consigned to negative
environments, Afro-American writers have created alternative spatial and geographical
metaphors to develop a positive sense of individual and cultural identity. Melvin Dixon
demonstrates how three principal figures of the land--the wilderness, the underground, and
the mountaintop--have become places of refuge and cultural revitalization for the
performance of identity, from early slave songs and fugitive narratives to modern and …
environments, Afro-American writers have created alternative spatial and geographical
metaphors to develop a positive sense of individual and cultural identity. Melvin Dixon
demonstrates how three principal figures of the land--the wilderness, the underground, and
the mountaintop--have become places of refuge and cultural revitalization for the
performance of identity, from early slave songs and fugitive narratives to modern and …
" Often considered alienated from mainstream culture and consigned to negative environments, Afro-American writers have created alternative spatial and geographical metaphors to develop a positive sense of individual and cultural identity. Melvin Dixon demonstrates how three principal figures of the land--the wilderness, the underground, and the mountaintop--have become places of refuge and cultural revitalization for the performance of identity, from early slave songs and fugitive narratives to modern and contemporary fiction"--Jacket.
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