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Author Roberts, June E., 1947-

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

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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 Moore Stacks  PR9265.9.B75 Z85 2006    Available  ---
Description xiv, 275 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 210
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 210.
Bibliography 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 back to the spiritual Kumbla : historicizing textual time -- 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.
Subject Brodber, Erna -- Criticism and interpretation.
Brodber, Erna.
Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and folklore -- Caribbean Area.
Literature and folklore.
Caribbean Area.
Religion and literature -- Caribbean Area.
Religion and literature.
Caribbean Area -- In literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Folklore in literature.
Folklore in literature.
Religion in literature.
Religion in literature.
Black people in literature.
Black people in literature.
ISBN 0313320748 alkaline paper
9780313320743 alkaline paper

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