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Literary expressions of African spirituality /
With its range of subject texts, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality builds a critical framework for exploring the presence and import of African spirituality in black Ameri-Atlantic artistic musings. These essays illustrate the intricate network of African spiritual transportations and tra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: African spirituality and the Ameri-Atlantic world / Carol Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West
- Section 1. Imagining African faith systems in the postmodern world
- The gods who speak in many voices, and in none: African novelists on indigenous and colonial religion / John C. Hawley
- Reading spirit: cosmological considerations in Garfield Linton's Voodoomation:a book of foretelling / Melvin Rahming
- From "Pythian madness" to an "inner ethic of self-sacrifice": the spirits of Africa and modernity in Du Bois's late writings / James Manigault-Bryant
- Rituals of remembrance: trauma, memory, and spiritual practice in Zakes Mda's The heart of redness / Erica L. Still
- Section 2. Integrations of the African and the Western in New World Black Atlantic writing
- The body of vodou: corporeality and the location of gender in Afro-diasporic religion / Roberto Strongman
- Hoodoo ladies and high conjurers: new directions for an old archetype / Kameelah Martin
- From Africa to America by way of the Caribbean: fictionalized histories of the diasporic slave woman's presence in America / Artress Bethany White
- Section 3. African deities and divinations as forces in New World black works
- Expressions of African-based spirituality in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Beauty Bragg
- Waiting for Olodumare: Ishmael Reed and the recovery of Yoruba / Darryl Dickson-Carr
- Testing and changing: Esu and Oya "making it do what it do" in The best man / Georgene Bess Montgomery
- Cuban utopianism and Haitian messiah: spiritual provocations of collective catalyst in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the dew / Mario Chandler.