TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Mat TI - Pym: a novel SN - 0812981588 (alk. paper) PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Spiegel & Grau KW - Poe, Edgar Allan, KW - African American college teachers KW - Fiction KW - Voyages and travels KW - Arctic regions KW - Discovery and exploration KW - Fantasy fiction KW - gsafd N2 - 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 ER -