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Literary expressions of African spirituality / edited by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.
- African literature (English).
- Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature (English).
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- African diaspora in literature.
- African diaspora--Religious life and customs.
- African diaspora.
- Spirituality in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Introduction: Centering Spiritual Memory-African Spirituality and the Ameri-Atlantic World; 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; Reading Spirit: Cosmological Considerations in Garfield Linton's Vodoomation: A Book of Foretelling; From "Pythian Madness" to an "Inner-Ethic of Self-Sacrifice": The Spirits of Africa and Modernity in Du Bois's Late Writings; Rituals of Remembrance in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness
- Integrations of the African and the Western in New World Black Atlantic WritingThe Body of Vodou: Corporeality and the Location of Gender in Afro-Diasporic Religion; Hoodoo Ladies and High Conjurers: New Directions for an Old Archetype; From Africa to America By Way of the Caribbean: Fictionalized Histories of the African Diasporic Slave Woman's Presence in the Americas in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and A Mercy; African Deities and Divinations as Forces in New World Black Works; Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory : Historicizing the Colonial Woman
- Looking for Olódùmarè: Ishmael Reed and the Recovery of YorubaTesting and Changing: Esu and Oya "Making it Do What it Do" in The Best Man; From Cuban Utopianism to Haitian Messianism: Spiritual Provocations of Collective Catalyst in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-44447-4
- 0-7391-8143-2
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