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"This is an extremely well written and carefully argued book that is quite persuasive. It should be essential reading for every scholar in African literature." --Research in African Literatures

..". a bold challenge and a tool for the student as well as for the scholar in African literature, and also a veritable tour de force in comparative literature." --World Literature Today

"Eileen Julien has produced an astute, well-researched, and lucidly written text on issues of orality in African literature." --International Journal of African Historical Studies

..". a joy to...

With a series of lyrical vignettes Eileen M. Julien traces her life as an African American woman growing up in middle-class New Orleans in the 1950s and 1960s. Julien's narratives focus on her relationship with her mother, family, community, and the city itself, while touching upon life after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Haunted by a colonial past associated with African presence, racial mixing, and suspect rituals, New Orleans has served the national imagination as a place of exoticism where objectionable people and unsavory practices can be found. The destruction...