Black cultural mythology Temple, Christel N. creator author. Lamousé-Smith, W. Bediako writer of foreword. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. nyu 2020 monographic eng print xxvi, 344 pages ; 24 cm "Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of 'mythology' from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African Diaspora. Temple comprehensively surveys over two hundred years of figures, moments, texts, and ideas to map an expansive yet broadly overlooked intellectual tradition of Black cultural mythology and to provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing this tradition, including canonical works by writers such as Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison. Black Cultural Mythology at once reorients and stabilizes the emergent field of Africana Cultural Memory Studies while also staging a much broader intervention, challenging scholars across disciplines--from literary and cultural studies history, sociology, and beyond--to embrace a more organic vocabulary to articulate the vitality of Africana survival and achievement"-- Intellectual foundations of black cultural mythology -- Commemoration intervention -- Harriet Tubman and aesthetic memorialization -- Haiti as diaspora-wide mythology -- Richard Wright's navigation of the antihero -- Mythical Malcolm in an age of marable -- Imaginative rights -- Conclusion. Introducing Africana cultural memory studies. Christel N. Temple. Includes bibliographical references and index. American literature African American authors History and criticism African Americans Intellectual life 20th century African Americans Intellectual life American literature African American authors 1900-1999 fast PS153.N5 T43 2020 810.9/896073 9781438477879 1438477872 9781438477886 1438477880 9781438477893 2019015193 pda,print LBSOR/DLC 190627 20250318215123.9 in00004123798 eng