"African American Vernacular Latin and Ovidian Figures in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Stories"

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"African American Vernacular Latin and Ovidian Figures in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Stories"

Original language description

After the audacious study and profound interest in Latin literature by the autodidact Charles Chesnutt is presented, this contribution argues that, unlike scholarship up to now pointing to orally-passed African American folktales, many of Chesnutt's Conjure Woman stories are in fact variations of selected stories from Ovid's masterpiece Metamorphosis. This claim is underscored by citing specific incidences of conjuring of North Carolina slaves into animals and trees in Chesnutt's stories with the magictransformations of characters in selections of the Metamorphosis by Ovid, and this is shown to be an example of "signifying" as described in the theory of African American rhetoric by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2011

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Litteraria Pragensia

ISSN

0862-8424

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

41

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

50-70

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