Pym : a novel /
Johnson, Mat.
Pym : a novel / Mat Johnson. - 1st ed. - New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2011. - 322 p. ; 22 cm.
A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventurers. Jaynes is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe's only novel ; when he discovers a crude slave narrative that seems to confirm the reality of Poe's fiction, he resolves to seek out Tsalal, imagining it to be a key to his personal salvation.
0812981588 (alk. paper) 9780812981582 (alk. paper)
2010029331
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 --Fiction.
African American college teachers--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Pym : a novel / Mat Johnson. - 1st ed. - New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2011. - 322 p. ; 22 cm.
A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventurers. Jaynes is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe's only novel ; when he discovers a crude slave narrative that seems to confirm the reality of Poe's fiction, he resolves to seek out Tsalal, imagining it to be a key to his personal salvation.
0812981588 (alk. paper) 9780812981582 (alk. paper)
2010029331
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 --Fiction.
African American college teachers--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.