03649nam a2200505Ka 4500 ocn839303291 OCoLC 20200709055810.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 130415s2013 mdu ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780739181430 (electronic bk.) 0739181432 (electronic bk.) 9780739181423 0739181424 (OCoLC)839303291 562322 (N$T) f------ PR9340.5 .L57 2013eb REL 013000 bisacsh 809.93382996 23 N$TA Literary expressions of African spirituality [electronic resource] / edited by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2013. 1 online resource (pages cm.) Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Description based on print version record. African literature (English) Black authors History and criticism. Caribbean literature (English) Black authors History and criticism. American literature African American authors History and criticism. African diaspora in literature. African diaspora Religious life and customs. Spirituality in literature. RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts bisacsh Electronic books. Marsh-Lockett, Carol P. West, Elizabeth (Elizabeth J.) Print version: Literary expressions of African spirituality. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2013 9780739181423 (DLC) 2013000598 (OCoLC)824686603 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=562322 EBSCOhost EBSC 562322 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 52977 52977