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Rutledge, Gregory E.

 
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Synopsis

Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gregory E. Rutledge is Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, US. His teaching and research interests are American literature and culture, Afro-futurism, critical race theory, and Afro-Orientalism. He has published scholarship, reviews, reference pieces, fiction, and poetry in African-American Review and Modern Fiction Studies.

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