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Author | : Janelle Rodriques |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0429998651 |
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This book explores representations of Obeah – a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices – across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century by West Indian authors. In the Caribbean and its diasporas, Obeah often manifests in the casting of spells, the administration of baths and potions of various oils, herbs, roots and powders, and sometimes spirit possession, for the purposes of protection, revenge, health and well-being. In most Caribbean territories, the practice – and practices that may resemble it – remains illegal. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature analyses fiction that employs Obeah as a marker of the Black ‘folk’ aesthetics that are now constitutive of West Indian literary and cultural production, either in resistance to colonial ideology or in service of the same. These texts foreground Obeah as a social and cultural logic both integral to and troublesome within the creation of such a thing as ‘West Indian’ literature and culture, at once a product of and a foil to Caribbean plantation societies. This book explores the presentation of Obeah as an ‘unruly’ narrative subject, one that not only subverts but signifies a lasting ‘Afro-folk’ sensibility within colonial and ‘postcolonial’ writing of the West Indies. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature will be of interest to scholars and students of Caribbean Literature, Diaspora Studies, and African and Caribbean religious studies; it will also contribute to dialogues of spirituality in the wider Black Atlantic.
Author | : Janelle Alicia Rodriques |
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Release | : 2016 |
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Author | : Evelyn O'Callaghan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2021-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108678327 |
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This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; non-elite memoirs and letters, such as the narratives of the enslaved or the working classes, especially women. Many contributions are comparative, multilingual, and regional. Some infer the cultural presence of subaltern groups within the texts of the dominant classes. Almost all of the chapters move easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary movements in ways that expand traditional notions of literary influence and canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this book provides a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature.
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Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Caribbean literature (English) |
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Author | : Hesketh Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Black people |
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Author | : Evelyn O'Callaghan |
Publisher | : Caribbean Literature in Transi |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2021-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1108475884 |
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This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.
Author | : Ernest N. Emenyonu |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 184701285X |
Download Speculative & Science Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Discussions around the 'rise' of science-fiction and fantasy have led to a push-back by writers and scholars who have suggested that this is not a new phenomenon in African literature. This collection focuses on the need to recalibrate ways of reading and categorising this grenre of African writing through critical examinations both of classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's oeuvre, as well as more recent fiction from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga."--Back cover.
Author | : Raquel Puig |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2008-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443803138 |
Download Caribbean Without Borders Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Caribbean Studies is an emerging field. As such, many topics within this discipline have yet to be explored and developed. This collection of essays is one of the forerunners dedicated to a comprehensive study of the literature, language, and culture of the Caribbean. By exploring the works of such prominent literary scholars as Samuel Selvon and Lorna Goodison as well as the myriad of issues pertaining to the Caribbean experience, this volume provides an engaging overview of literary, language, and cultural analysis. Because of this wide range of essays, this text meets a need to examine the Caribbean in its complexity, which is rarely addressed.
Author | : Ronald Cummings |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2021-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108474009 |
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The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.
Author | : Diana Paton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2015-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107025656 |
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A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.