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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
People
Erna Brodber
Places
Caribbean Area
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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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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

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OL3403514M
ISBN 10
0313320748
LCCN
2005018687
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927296

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