Clear Word and Third Sight - Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing

An exploration of the implicit and explicit ways that an alternate African diasporic consciousness, grounded in folk mores, is expressed in Afro-Caribbean writing.

Sommario

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Alternate Consciousness in the Diaspora 1

1 Paris in 1956: Negritude and Cultural Discourse 21

2 Colonial Legacies, Gender Identity, and Black Female Writing in the Diaspora 43

3 Negritude and Negativity: Alienation and "Voice" in Eastern Caribbean Literature 74

4 Diaspora Philosophy, French Caribbean Literature, and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle 114

5 The Spoken Word and Spirit Consciousness: Audre Lorde and Paule Marshall's Diasporic Voice 158

Afterword 203

Notes 211

Bibliography 227

Index 237

Info autore

Catherine A. John

Riassunto

Shows how a shared consciousness, or third sight, rooted in pre-colonial African cultures and disseminated in a rich oral tradition, has served diasporic communities by creating structures of feeling linking those of African descent across centuries and continents.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Catherine a. John, Catherine John, Catherine A John, Catherine A. John, Catherine A. John Camara, Saint John VII
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2003
• EAN: 9780822332329
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3232-9
• Pagine: 248
• Peso: 408 g
• Serie: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Karibik, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Amerikanisches Englisch