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

Informationen zum Autor Catherine A. John Klappentext ""Clear Word and Third Sight" itself offers clarity and vision in a new and insightful reading of African diaspora literatures. Catherine A. John offers a necessary revisiting of negritude, a confidence in her examination of coloniality and gendered identity, and an embrace of magic and spirit and poetry."--Carole Boyce Davies, Florida International University Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Catherine a. John, John, Catherine John, Catherine A John, Catherine A. John, Catherine A John Camara, Catherine A. John Camara, Saint John VII
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2003
• EAN: 9780822332220
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3222-0
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica romanza; Karibik, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Amerikanisches Englisch