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