Literary expressions of African spirituality
edited by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West
Literary expressions of African spirituality
نویسنده
edited by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. Westناشر
Lexington Booksنسخه 1
فهرست
شناسنامه
عنوان و نام پدیدآور
Literary expressions of African spirituality / edited by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. Westمشخصات نشر
لانهام : Lexington Books، 2013ممشخصات ظاهری
vi, 239 p.; 23 cm.موضوع
African literature (English) Black authors -- History and criticismCaribbean literature (English) Black authors -- History and criticism
American literature African American authors -- History and criticism
African diaspora in literature
African diaspora Religious life and customs
Spirituality in literature
زبان
انگلیسییادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.مندرجات
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