Sterling Stuckey: 2 books
African Culture and Melville's Art
The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Although Herman Melville's masterworks Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno have long been the subject of vigorous scholarly examination, the impact of African culture on these works has received surprisingly little critical attention. Presenting a groundbreaking reappraisal of these two powerful pieces of...
Slave Culture
Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Oxford has released a new edition of Sterling Stuckey's ground-breaking study, Slave Culture. A leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, Stuckey explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve...