The Caribbean oral tradition : literature, performance, and practice / Hanétha Vété-Congolo, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vété-Congolo, Hanétha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Latin American literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Oral tradition in literature.

Oral tradition--Caribbean Area.

Oral tradition.

Oral tradition--Latin America.

Black people in literature.

Black people--Folklore.

Black people.

Slavery in literature.

Latin American literature--Black authors.

Caribbean literature--Black authors.

Latin America.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, [2016]

Summary:

The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy. It defines the innovative prism of interorality as the systematic transposition of previously composed storytales into new and distinct tales. The book offers a powerful consideration of the interconnections between Caribbean orality and Caribbean philosophy, especially as this pertains to aesthetics and ethics. This is a new area of thought, a new methodological approach and a new conceptual paradigm and proposition to scholars, students, writers, artists and intellectuals who conceive and examine intellectual and cultural productions in the Black Atlantic world and beyond.

Contents:

Introduction Hanétha Vété-Congolo

Foreword Olufemi Vaughan

Preface Connected by Narratives: Thinking as Creation and Resistance Jean Godefroy Bidima

Caribbean Interorality: A Brief Introduction Hanétha Vété-Congolo

Interorality and Caribbean Philosophy Paget Henry.-. Crossing Spirits, Negotiating Cultures: Transmigration, Transculturation, and Interorality in Cuban Espiritismo Solimar Otero

Orality and the Slave Sublime John Drabinski

Utterance, Against Orality, Beyond Textuality Michael Birenbaum

Boukman in Books: Tracing a Legendary Genealogy Paul Miller

Afterword Gordon Lewis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319320878

3319320874

OCLC:

965797194

Publisher Number:

99971555533