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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
With its range of subject texts, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality builds a critical framework for exploring the presence and import of African spirituality in black Ameri-Atlantic artistic musings. These essays illustrate the intricate network of African spiritual transportations and transformations among New World and continental African literatures. |
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African literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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African diaspora in literature.
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African diaspora -- Religious life and customs.
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Spirituality in literature.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts.
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| Added Author |
Marsh-Lockett, Carol P.
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West, Elizabeth J., 1957-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Literary expressions of African spirituality. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2013 9780739181423 (DLC) 2013000598 (OCoLC)824686603 |
| ISBN |
9780739181430 (electronic bk.) |
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0739181432 (electronic bk.) |
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