A theory of African-American archetypes: big mama and the whistlin' woman

This study introduces a literary Theory of African-American Archetypes, which is an outgrowth of two parent theories, Archetypal Criticism and African-American Literary Criticism. The theory posits that the folklore of Africana peoples created and inform culturally specific archetypes, which are dee...

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Main Author: Holston, Jan Alexia
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center 2010
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/201
http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1752&context=dissertations