African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition

1. Introduction
Tracey L. Walters

2. Historical Overview of Ancient and Contemporary Representations of Classical Mythology
Tracey L. Walters

3. Classical Discourse as Political Agency
Tracey L. Walters

4. Gwendolyn Brooks’ Racialization of the Persephone and Demeter Myth in “The Anniad” and “In the Mecca”
Tracey L. Walters

5. The Destruction and Reconstruction of Classical and Cultural Myth in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye

Tracey L. Walters

6. A Universal Approach to Classical Mythology
Tracey L. Walters

Avainsanat: Literature, North American Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction, Anthropology, Twentieth-Century Literature