Afro-Caribbean poetry and ritual / Paul A. Griffith.

This book investigates Kamau Brathwaite's and Derek Walcott's postcolonial debates, reading them against the traditional sites of the Caribbean imaginary.

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Main Author: Griffith, Paul A., 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of 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.