Trans-Atlantic Circulation Of Black Tropes:Èsu And The West African Griot As Poetic References for Liberation In Cultures Of The African Diaspora
My dissertation, under the direction of Dr Pius Ngandu Nkashama explores the spread of African rhetorical tropes in the Atlantic world. Building on Henry Louis Gates theory of Signifying, I use the West African God of fate Èsù and the West African cultural figure of the griot as cultural referents f...
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LSU
2012
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06052012-103811/ |