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| Named Person: | Erna Brodber; Erna Brodber |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
June E Roberts |
| ISBN: | 0313320748 9780313320743 |
| OCLC Number: | 60799714 |
| Description: | xiv, 275 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 210 |
| Responsibility: | June E. Roberts. |
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- Brodber, Erna -- Criticism and interpretation.
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- Caribbean Area -- In literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Folklore in literature.
- Religion in literature.
- Blacks in literature.
- Brodber, Erna -- Critique et interprétation.
- Littérature et folklore -- Caraïbes (Région)
- Religion et littérature -- Caraïbes (Région)
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- Folklore dans la littérature.
- Religion dans la littérature.
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