Reading Erna Brodber : uniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion / June E. Roberts.

Author/creator Roberts, June E., 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Descriptionxiv, 275 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Brodber, Erna--Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and folklore--Caribbean Area.
Religion and literature--Caribbean Area.
African Americans in literature.
Folklore in literature.
Religion in literature.
Black people in literature
Caribbean Area--In literature.

SeriesContributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 210, 0069-9624 ;
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 210. ^A477074
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 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 twentieth-century Black representation -- African spirituality : the ultimate connection -- Intimations of allegories of unification.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005018687
ISBN0313320748 (alk. paper)

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