Reading Erna Brodber : uniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2006.
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| Series: | Contributions in Afro-American and African studies.
no. 210. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Origins of a tradition : the continuum of Caribbean literature
- The informing intellectual climate
- Interdisciplinary and interculture social constructions
- Brodber's discursive position within and without Caribbean literary traditions and tropes
- Women writers and feminism : a canon of their own tropes and concerns
- Reading the text : the sometimes ambiguous Kumbla of the folk in Jane and Louisa
- Getting out of the physical Kumbla and back to the spiritual Kumbla : historicizing textual temporality
- Reading Myal and thwarting spirit thievery
- The location of spirit thievery
- Redemption allegories and Myalism
- Tropes of the Harlem renaissance-minstrelsy and early twentieth-century Black representation
- African spirituality : the ultimate connection
- Intimations of allegories of unification.