1st Edition
The Epic Trickster in American Literature From Sunjata to So(u)l
Preface. 1. Introduction 2. Introduction to West/Central African Epic 3. Epic Performance in the American Epic Diaspora 4. All Green with Epic Potential: Chesnutt Goes to the Marrow of Tradition to Re-Construct America’s Epic Body 5. Native Son. Global Warming, Nuclear Winter, and Katrina’s "Folk": African Epic and the Ecological Implications of Wright’s "Blue[s]print" 6. A Beloved, "Ten Times Better" Community: The Epic Trickster and Morrison’s post-Civil Rights Common/Sense 7. Conclusion
Biography
Gregory E. Rutledge is Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, US. His teaching and research interests are American literature and culture, Afro-futurism, critical race theory, and Afro-Orientalism. He has published scholarship, reviews, reference pieces, fiction, and poetry in African-American Review and Modern Fiction Studies.
