An edition of Reading Erna Brodber (2005)

Reading Erna Brodber

uniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion

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An edition of Reading Erna Brodber (2005)

Reading Erna Brodber

uniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion

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Praeger Publishers
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Subjects

African Americans in literature, Blacks in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Folklore in literature, In literature, Literature and folklore, Religion and literature, Religion in literature, African americans, history, Black people in literature

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Erna Brodber

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Caribbean Area
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Cover of: Reading Erna Brodber
Reading Erna Brodber: Uniting the Black Diaspora through Folk Culture and Religion (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
March 30, 2006, Praeger Publishers
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Cover of: Reading Erna Brodber
Reading Erna Brodber: uniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion
2005, Praeger Publishers
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Table of Contents

Origins of a tradition : the continuum of Caribbean literature
The informing intellectual climate
Interdisciplinary and interculture social constructions
Brodber'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 : historicizing 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Westport, Conn
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies,, no. 210

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54, B
Library of Congress
PR9265.9.B75 Z85 2005

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Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3403514M
ISBN 10
0313320748
LCCN
2005018687
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927296

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OL5827264W

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