TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marsh-Lockett,Carol P.
AU  - West,Elizabeth
TI  - Literary expressions of African spirituality
SN  - 9780739181430 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PR9340.5 .L57 2013eb
U1  - 809.93382996 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - African literature (English)
KW  - Black authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Caribbean literature (English)
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - African diaspora in literature
KW  - African diaspora
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Spirituality in literature
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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