MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2005018687
003 DLC
005 20060725085042.0
008 050628s2006 ctu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005018687
020 $a0313320748 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aPR9265.9.B75$bZ85 2006
082 00 $a813/.54$aB$222
100 1 $aRoberts, June E.,$d1947-
245 10 $aReading Erna Brodber :$buniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion /$cJune E. Roberts.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bPraeger Publishers,$c2006.
300 $axiv, 275 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aContributions in Afro-American and African studies,$x0069-9624 ;$vno. 210
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOrigins 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.
600 10 $aBrodber, Erna$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aLiterature and folklore$zCaribbean Area.
650 0 $aReligion and literature$zCaribbean Area.
651 0 $aCaribbean Area$xIn literature.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aFolklore in literature.
650 0 $aReligion in literature.
650 0 $aBlacks in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018687.html