When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE - Hardcover

Jonathan Brennan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252028198 ISBN 13: 9780252028199

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2003

Synopsis

An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African American and Native American descent, When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote is the first book to theorize an African-Native American literary tradition. In examining this overlooked tradition, the book prompts a reconsideration of interracial relations in American history and literature.
 
Jonathan Brennan, in a sweeping historical and analytical introduction to this collection of essays, surveys several centuries of literature in the context of the historical and cultural exchange and development of distinct African-Native American traditions. Positing a new African-Native American literary theory, he illuminates the roles subjectivity, situational identities, and strategic discourse play in defining African-Native American literatures.
 
Brennan provides a thorough background to the literary tradition and a valuable overview to topics discussed in the essays. He examines African-Native American political and historical texts, travel narratives, and the Mardi Gras Indian tradition, suggesting that this evolving oral tradition parallels the development of numerous Black Indian literary traditions in the United States and Latin America.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Brennan, an English instructor at Mission College, is the editor of Mixed Race Literature. He has also been an assistant editor at the San Francisco Review of Books and editor of The Berkeley Poetry Review.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0252028198
• ISBN 13: 9780252028199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307