Catherine A John Camara

Clear Word and Third Sight

Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

""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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332220
• ISBN-10: 0822332221
• Artikelnr.: 20985313

Autorenporträt

Catherine A. John

Inhaltsangabe

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