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Author Griffith, Paul A., 1952-

Title Afro-Caribbean poetry and ritual / Paul A. Griffith
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages)
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
Summary This book investigates Kamau Brathwaite's and Derek Walcott's postcolonial debates, reading them against the traditional sites of the Caribbean imaginary
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Caribbean poetry (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism
Caribbean poetry (English) -- History and criticism
Ritual in literature.
Literary studies: poetry & poets -- English -- Caribbean islands.
Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- Caribbean islands.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Literature.
Caribbean poetry (English)
Literature
Ritual in literature
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- In literature
Subject Caribbean Area
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230106529
0230106528
9781349384952
134938495X
1282909479
9781282909472
9786612909474
6612909471