The Sacred Act of Reading : Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature /

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"This book brings together literary texts, historical and contemporary anthropological studies, theology, and critical theory to show how Black authors in the Americas employ spiritual phenomena as theoretical frameworks for sociopolitical power"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Castro, Anne Margaret (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Spirituality in literature.
Literature > Black authors.
Literature and anthropology.
American literature > African American authors.
African diaspora.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Africains > Pays etrangers.
Spiritualite dans la litterature.
Litterature et anthropologie.
Litterature > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Personal Prologue; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "You Preached!": Zora Neale Hurston's and Toni Morrison's Sermonic Performances; 2. The Hermeneutics of Spirit Possession: Interpreting Mediums in Changó, The Biggest Badass and Louisiana; 3. The Spiritual Life of Power: Zombies in Myal and Brown Girl in the Ring; 4. Reading the Prophetic Stage: Imagining the Limits of the Possible in Bedward and Dream on Monkey; Epilogue: Interpretive Communities; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Recent books in the series

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