Africanist

For one thing, they're customarily performed in situ, with gestures and audience participation; for another, the narrator is free to improvise--"to bind together the various episodes, motifs, characters, and forms at his disposal," as the Africanist Ruth Finnegan has written, "into his own unique creation, suited to the audience, the occasion, or the whim of the moment.

Krik, krik, krik: how Aardema & Co. attuned us to African folklore by Bader, Barbara / The Horn Book Magazine

The distinction between categories, "craft" or "curio" versus "art," is, as any Africanist art historian knows, ambiguous and problematic, yet it is absolutely crucial to this presentation.

Expanding the canon: telephone wire and tin cans by Rovine, Victoria L. / African Arts

Comparable to Morrison's notion that blackness functions dialectically and pejoratively in bolstering constructions of whiteness, arguably, Gaines's use of the homosexual black man is analogous to the ways that Hemingway, Melville, and other white American male literary forefathers configured the Africanist presence as abject and other.

Que(e)rying the prison-house of Black male desire: homosociality in ... by Clark, Keith / African American Review

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