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Reading Erna Brodber
Uniting the Black Diaspora through Folk Culture and Religion
Reading Erna Brodber
Uniting the Black Diaspora through Folk Culture and Religion
Description
June Roberts explores the complicated post-colonial infrastructure of Caribbean society and life as an African American through the work of Erna Brodber. Brodber's novels Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, MYAL, and Louisiana all explore various facets of the Caribbean and African American experiences, and Roberts greatly adds to their value through her commentary and interpretation. While she uses Erna Brodber's books' organizing themes as a home base, Roberts doesn't limit her work to strict criticism and analysis of the novels. Instead, she traces countless issues as varied as the nuances of the Caribbean psyche, the importance of matriarchs, traditional slave dances, obeahs, Santeria and other African-based religious expressions, as well as politics and history, and the perspectives of past and present scholars of the Caribbean and African-American experience. Most importantly, Roberts investigates how the colonial system's exploitation and dehumanization of the black people affected their spirits. This text is broad enough to appeal to all enthusiasts of Caribbean and African-American topics, and it can especially benefit academic courses related to these topics.
Table of Contents
Origins of a Tradition: The Continuum of Caribbean Literature
The Informing Intellectual Climate
Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Social Constructions
Bodber's Discursive Position Within and Without Caribbean Literary Traditions and Tropes
Women Writers and Feminism: A Canon of Their Own Tropes and Concerns
Reading the Text: The Sometimes Ambiguous Kumbla of the folk in Jane and Louisa
Getting Out of the Physical Kumbla and Getting Back to the Spiritual Kumbla: Historisizing Textual Temporality
Reading Myal and Thwarting Spirit Thievery
The Location of Spirit Thievery
Redemption Allegories and Myalism
Tropes of the Harlem Renaissance-Minstrelsy and Early 20th Century Black Representation
African Spirituality: The Ultimate Connection
Intimations of Allegories of Unification
Epilogue
Notes
Product details
| Published | 30 Mar 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 292 |
| ISBN | 9780313069109 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Series | Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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