African Culture And Melvilles Art

Author : Sterling Stuckey
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195372700
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Culture and Melville's Art written by Sterling Stuckey and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a groundbreaking reappraisal of these two powerful pieces of fiction, Sterling Stuckey reveals how African customs and rituals heavily influenced one of America's greatest novelists.

Author : Melville Jean Herskovits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Backgrounds of African Art : Three Lectures Given on the Cooke-Daniels Lecture Foundation, in Conjunction with an Exhibition of African Art Assembled by the Denver Art Museum, January and February, 1945 written by Melville Jean Herskovits and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cécile Fromont
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618729
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Conversion written by Cécile Fromont and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism. By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries. The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.

Author : Melville Herskovits
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807009055
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of The Negro Past written by Melville Herskovits and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and arts of the Americas.

Author : Brian Yothers
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1640140530
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville's Mirrors written by Brian Yothers and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.

Author : Robert Steven Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521555715
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville written by Robert Steven Levine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.

Author : Wyn Kelley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119045274
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Herman Melville written by Wyn Kelley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed

Author : Sterling Stuckey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508604X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Through the Storm written by Sterling Stuckey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the conjunction of art and history as demonstrated in dance, music, poetry, and novels.

Author : Christopher Freeburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536729
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville and the Idea of Blackness written by Christopher Freeburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the unique problems that 'blackness' signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas', Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness as either a metaphor for the haunting power of slavery or an allegory of moral evil, Freeburg asserts that blackness functions as the site where Melville correlates the sociopolitical challenges of transatlantic slavery and US colonial expansion with philosophical concerns about mastery. By focusing on Melville's iconic interracial encounters, Freeburg reveals the important role blackness plays in Melville's portrayal of characters' arduous attempts to seize their own destiny, amass scientific knowledge and perfect themselves. A valuable resource for scholars and graduate students in American literature, this text will also appeal to those working in American, African American and postcolonial studies.

Author : G. Sanborn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230120040
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville and Aesthetics written by G. Sanborn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory.