AfroSurrealism : the African diaspora's surrealist fiction /: the African diaspora's surrealist fiction. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rochelle Spencer.
• Authors: (Writer), Spencer, Rochelle
• Contents: Introduction: AfroSurrealism: A New Black Surrealism 1. Mat Johnson’s Pym and Helen Oyeyemi’s boy snow bird : AfroSurrealism, Magical Realism, and the Psychology of Reimagining the Past 2. Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light, Chris Abani’s The Secret History of Las Vegas, and the AfroSurreal Grotesque 3. AfroSurreal and Afrofuturistic Cinematic Storytelling: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One 4. The Postmodern Fables of Victor LaValle’s Big Machine and Summer Brenner’s Oakland Tales 5. Horror and Immortality in Tananarive Due’s Ghost Summer, Nalo Hopkinson’s Falling in Love with Hominids, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ Woman After Her Last Wound Conclusion: Jeffery Renard Allen and Sustaining the Surreal Moment; Appendix
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 138 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.91163; African diaspora in literature; Surrealism (Literature); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; African diaspora in literature; Surrealism (Literature); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315145778; 1315145774; 9781351381659; 1351381652; 9781351381666; 1351381660; 9781351381673; 1351381679
• Related ISBNs: 113850405X; 9781138504059
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.