Sacral grooves, limbo gateways : travels in deep southern time, circum-Caribbean space, Afro-creole authority /
"We're seeing people that we didn't know exist," the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This book offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, int...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | New southern studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "We're seeing people that we didn't know exist," the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This book offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history, and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. This interdisciplinary study slips beneath the bar of rigid national and literary periods, embarking upon deeper - more rhythmic and embodied - signatures of time |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780820342139 0820342130 |