The Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction 1970-2000: Specters of the Shore

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 ’Drumbeats From The Aeons’: Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo

3 ’Solomon’s Leap’: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

4 ’Worse Than Unwelcome’: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

5 ’Something About The Silence’: John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire

6 ’Words Without Sound’: Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River

7 ’Circular Talk’: S.I. Martin’s Incomparable World

8 ’Awakening to the Singing’: Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara

9 ’I Can Change Memory’: David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress

10 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Leila Kamali is Lecturer in American and English Literature at King’s College London, UK.