Ulysses in Black : Ralph Ellison, classicism, and African American literature /

Ulysses in Black : Ralph Ellison, classicism, and African American literature / Patrice D. Rankine.

"In this work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity. Ulysses in Black demonstra...

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Main Author: Rankine, Patrice D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006]
Series:Wisconsin studies in classics.
Subjects:
Ellison, Ralph > Criticism and interpretation.
Odysseus, > King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > In literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > Greek influences.
American literature > African American authors > Classical influences.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Classicism in literature.
Comparative literature > Modern and classical.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: preparing for the journey of Ulysses in black
  • Classica Africana: the nascent study of black classicism
  • From eurocentrism to black classicism
  • Birth of a hero: the poetics and politics of Ulysses in classic literature
  • Ulysses lost on racial frontiers: the limits of classicism in the modern world
  • The new negro Ulysses: classicism in African American literature as a return from the black (w)hole
  • Ralph Ellison's black American Ulysses
  • "Ulysses alone in Polly-what's-his-name's cave": Ralph Ellison and the uses of myth
  • Ulysses in black: lynching, dismemberment, dionysiac rites
  • Ulysses (re)journeying home: bridging the divide between Black Studies and the classics.

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