With its range of subject texts, this book 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.
With its range of subject texts, this book 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.
Edited by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West - Contributions by Beauty Bragg; James Manigault-Bryant; Mario Chandler; Darryl Dickson-Carr; John C. Hawley; Kameelah L. Martin; Georgene Bess Montgomery; Melvin Rahming; Erica L. Still; Roberto Stro
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Chapter 1: 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 Chapter 2: The Gods Who Speak in Many Voices, and in None: African Novelists on Indigenous and Colonial Religion John C. Hawley Chapter 3: Reading Spirit: Cosmological Considerations in Garfield Linton's Voodoomation: A Book of Foretelling Melvin Rahming Chapter 4: 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 Chapter 5: 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 Chapter 6: The Body of Vodou: Corporeality and the Location of Gender in Afro-Diasporic Religion Roberto Strongman Chapter 7: Hoodoo Ladies and High Conjurers: New Directions for an Old Archetype Kameelah Martin Chapter 8: 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 Chapter 9: Expressions of African-Based Spirituality in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory Beauty Bragg Chapter 10: Waiting for Olodumare: Ishmael Reed and the Recovery of Yoruba" Darryl Dickson-Carr Chapter 11: Testing and Changing: Esu and Oya 'Making it Do What it Do' in The Best Man Georgene Bess Montgomery Chapter 12: Cuban Utopianism and Haitian Messiah: Spiritual Provocations of Collective Catalyst in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew Mario Chandler
Chapter 1: 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 Chapter 2: The Gods Who Speak in Many Voices, and in None: African Novelists on Indigenous and Colonial Religion John C. Hawley Chapter 3: Reading Spirit: Cosmological Considerations in Garfield Linton's Voodoomation: A Book of Foretelling Melvin Rahming Chapter 4: 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 Chapter 5: 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 Chapter 6: The Body of Vodou: Corporeality and the Location of Gender in Afro-Diasporic Religion Roberto Strongman Chapter 7: Hoodoo Ladies and High Conjurers: New Directions for an Old Archetype Kameelah Martin Chapter 8: 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 Chapter 9: Expressions of African-Based Spirituality in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory Beauty Bragg Chapter 10: Waiting for Olodumare: Ishmael Reed and the Recovery of Yoruba" Darryl Dickson-Carr Chapter 11: Testing and Changing: Esu and Oya 'Making it Do What it Do' in The Best Man Georgene Bess Montgomery Chapter 12: Cuban Utopianism and Haitian Messiah: Spiritual Provocations of Collective Catalyst in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew Mario Chandler
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