Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways : Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority /

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"We're seeing people that we didn't know exist," the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual perf...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cartwright, Keith, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013
Series:New southern studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Authority > Social aspects.
Space and time > Social aspects.
Creoles > Caribbean Area > Social life and customs.
Blacks > Caribbean Area > Social life and customs.
Creoles > Southern States > Social life and customs.
African Americans > Southern States > Social life and customs.
Caribbean Area > Social life and customs.
Southern States > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Invocation : to bust your shell
  • Introduction : reborn again : orphan initiations, motherless lands
  • Part One. The ancestral house
  • Down to the mire : travels, shouts & Saraka in Atlantic praise-housings
  • Lift every voice and swing : James Weldon Johnson's God-met places and native lands
  • Part Two. Les invisibles
  • Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue refugees in the Govi of New Orleans
  • Making faces at the sublime : momentum from within Creole City
  • Part Three. Sangre y Monte
  • "Come and gaze on a mystery" : Zora Neale Hurston's rain-bringing authority
  • "Vamanos pa'l Monte" : into Florida's repeating bush
  • Envoi : white women have never known what to do with their blood : gulf carriers and sanguine knowledge.

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