Afro-Caribbean poetry and ritual

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Title:

Author:

Griffith, Paul A., 1952-

ISBN:

9780230623644

Personal Author:

Griffith, Paul A., 1952-

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description:

xiii, 219 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

The limbo: ritual reentry into history -- Shipwrecked in the Middle Passage: limbo as agon of soul -- Folk masques: ritualizing time and space -- Mythic voices: art as the inheritance of responsibility -- Lullabies and children's games: word as genesis of spirit -- Spiritual adventure through song -- Tales and fables: charting the interstice.

Subject Term:

Caribbean poetry (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism.

Caribbean poetry (English) -- History and criticism.

Ritual in literature.

Geographic Term:

Caribbean Area -- In literature.

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Summary

Focusing on orally transmitted cultural forms in the Caribbean, this book reaffirms the importance of myth and symbol in folk consciousness as a mode of imaginative conceptualization. Paul A. Griffith cross-references Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott s postcolonial debates with issues at seminal sites where Caribbean imaginary insurgencies took root. This book demonstrates the ways residually oral forms distilled history, society, and culture to cleverly resist aggressions authored through colonialist presumptions. In an analysis of the archetypal patterns in the oral tradition - both literary and nonliterary, this impressive book gives insight into the way in which people think about the world and represent themselves in it.