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| Title: | Literary expressions of African spirituality |
| Editors: | Marsh-Lockett, Carol P. West, Elizabeth J. |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Pages: | 239 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Lanham, MD |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| ISBN: | 0739181424; 9780739181423; 9781498515498; 0739181432; 9780739181430 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Caribbean |
| Subjects: | literary criticism literature African religions Black people |
| Abstract: | This edited volume looks at the way black authors have engaged with spirituality in their literary output within the 'Black Atlantic'. The contributors look at authors in Africa and the Caribbean and the way their shared legacies of slavery have framed their notions of African spirituality and indigenous belief systems. Contributions: Introduction: African spirituality and the Ameri-Atlantic world (C. Marsh-Lockett, E. J. West); The gods who speak in many voices, and in none: African novelists on indigenous and colonial religion (J. C. Hawley); Reading spirit: cosmological considerations in Garfield Linton's ''Voodoomation: a book of foretelling'' (M. B. Rahming); From 'Pythian madness' to an 'inner ethic of self-sacrifice': the spirits of Africa and modernity in Du Bois's late writings (J. A. Manigault-Bryant); Rituals of remembrance: trauma, memory, and spiritual practice in Zakes Mda's ''The heart of redness'' (E. Still); The body of vodou: corporeality and the location of gender in Afro-diasporic religion (R. Strongman); Hoodoo ladies and high conjurers: new directions for an old archetype (K. L. Martin); From Africa to America by way of the Caribbean: fictionalized histories of the diasporic slave woman's presence in America in ''I, Tituda'', ''Black witch of Salem'' and ''A mercy'' (A. B. White); Edwidge Danticat's ''Breath, eyes, memory'': historicizing the colonial woman (B. Bragg); Looking for Olódůmarč: Ishmael Reed and the recovery of Yoruba (D. Dickson-Carr); Testing and changing: Esu and Oya 'making it do what it do' in ''The best man'' (G. B. Montgomery); From Cuban utopianism to Haitian messianism: spiritual provocations of collective catalyst in Jacques Roumain's ''Masters of the dew'' (M. A. Chandler). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
