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Author Castro, Anne Margaret, author.

Title The sacred act of reading : spirituality, performance, and power in afro-diasporic literature / Anne Margaret Castro.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
©2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages).
text file
Series New world studies
New World studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "This book brings together literary texts, historical and contemporary anthropological studies, theology, and critical theory to show how Black authors in the Americas employ spiritual phenomena as theoretical frameworks for sociopolitical power"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Personal Prologue; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "You Preached!": Zora Neale Hurston's and Toni Morrison's Sermonic Performances; 2. The Hermeneutics of Spirit Possession: Interpreting Mediums in Changó, The Biggest Badass and Louisiana; 3. The Spiritual Life of Power: Zombies in Myal and Brown Girl in the Ring; 4. Reading the Prophetic Stage: Imagining the Limits of the Possible in Bedward and Dream on Monkey; Epilogue: Interpretive Communities; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Recent books in the series
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
Literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
Literature -- Black authors.
Literature and anthropology.
Literature and anthropology.
Spirituality in literature.
Spirituality in literature.
African diaspora.
African diaspora.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Castro, Anne Margaret. Sacred act of reading. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020 9780813943442 (DLC) 2019030175
ISBN 0813943469 (electronic book)
9780813943466 (electronic book)
9780813943442 (hardcover)
9780813943459 (paperback)

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