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Subject(s)

• Brodber, Erna—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Literature and folklore—Caribbean Area [Browse]
• Religion and literature—Caribbean Area [Browse]
• Caribbean Area—In literature [Browse]
• African Americans in literature [Browse]
• Folklore in literature [Browse]
• Religion in literature [Browse]
• Black people in literature [Browse]

Series

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 210 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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ISBN

• 0313320748 (alk. paper)
• 9780313320743 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005018687

OCLC

60799714

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