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Literary Expressions of African Spirituality
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2013
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With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8142-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8143-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
239
Product type
Edited Book
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Chapter One: Introduction: Centering Spiritual Memory—African Spirituality and the Ameri-Atlantic World No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter Two: The Gods Who Speak in Many Voices, and in None: African Novelists on Indigenous and Colonial Religion No access
Chapter Three: Reading Spirit: Cosmological Considerations in Garfield Linton’s Vodoomation: A Book of Foretelling No access
Chapter Four: From “Pythian Madness” to an “Inner-Ethic of Self-Sacrifice”: The Spirits of Africa and Modernity in Du Bois’s Late Writings No access
Chapter Five: Rituals of Remembrance in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness No access
Chapter Six: The Body of Vodou: Corporeality and the Location of Gender in Afro-Diasporic Religion No access
Chapter Seven: Hoodoo Ladies and High Conjurers: New Directions for an Old Archetype No access
Chapter Eight: 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 No access
Chapter Nine: Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory: Historicizing the Colonial Woman No access
Chapter Ten: Looking for Olódùmarè: Ishmael Reed and the Recovery of Yoruba No access
Chapter Eleven: Testing and Changing: Esu and Oya “Making it Do What it Do” in The Best Man No access
Chapter Twelve: From Cuban Utopianism to Haitian Messianism: Spiritual Provocations of Collective Catalyst in Jacques Roumain’s Masters of the Dew No access
