Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways - Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum caribbean Space, Afro creole

Offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalised invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history and migration that have linked the coastal American South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world.

About the author

KEITH CARTWRIGHT is an associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. He is the author of Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales; Junkanoo: A Christmas Pageant; and Saint-Louis: A Wool Strip-Cloth for Sekou Dabo.

Summary

Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Cartwright
• Assisted by: Riche Richardson (Editor), Jon Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2013
• EAN: 9780820345994
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4599-4
• Series: New Southern Studies; The New Southern Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies