عنوان

Literary expressions of African spirituality

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

Eng

Title Proper

Literary expressions of African spirituality

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lanham, Md

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Lexington Books

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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edited by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West

Text of Note

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 -- The gods who speak in many voices, and in none: African novelists on indigenous and colonial religion / John C. Hawley -- Reading spirit: cosmological considerations in Garfield Linton's Voodoomation:a book of foretelling / Melvin Rahming -- 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 -- 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 -- The body of vodou: corporeality and the location of gender in Afro-diasporic religion / Roberto Strongman -- Hoodoo ladies and high conjurers: new directions for an old archetype / Kameelah Martin -- 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 -- Expressions of African-based spirituality in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Beauty Bragg -- Waiting for Olodumare: Ishmael Reed and the recovery of Yoruba / Darryl Dickson-Carr -- Testing and changing: Esu and Oya "making it do what it do" in The best man / Georgene Bess Montgomery -- Cuban utopianism and Haitian messiah: spiritual provocations of collective catalyst in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the dew / Mario Chandler

Entry Element

Black authors -- History and criticism ، African literature )English(

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Black authors -- History and criticism ، Caribbean literature )English(

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African American authors -- History and criticism ، American literature

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، African diaspora in literature

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Religious life and customs ، African diaspora

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، Spirituality in literature

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AU Marsh-Lockett, Carol P

AU West, Elizabeth )Elizabeth J.(