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Reading Erna Brodber : uniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion
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Reading Erna Brodber : uniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion

Author: June E Roberts
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 210
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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