June E. Roberts

Reading Erna Brodber

Uniting the Black Diaspora Through Folk Culture and Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

June Roberts explores the complicated post-colonial infrastructure of Caribbean society and life as an African American through the work of Erna Brodber. Brodber's novels Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, MYAL, and Louisiana all explore various facets of the Caribbean and African American experiences, and Roberts greatly adds to their value through her commentary and interpretation. While she uses Erna Brodber's books' organizing themes as a home base, Roberts doesn't limit her work to strict criticism and analysis of the novels. Instead, she traces countless issues as varied as the nuances of the Caribbean psyche, the importance of matriarchs, traditional slave dances, obeahs, Santeria and other African-based religious expressions, as well as politics and history, and the perspectives of past and present scholars of the Caribbean and African-American experience. Most importantly, Roberts investigates how the colonial system's exploitation and dehumanization of the black people affected their spirits. This text is broad enough to appeal to all enthusiasts of Caribbean and African-American topics, and it can especially benefit academic courses related to these topics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9780313320743
• ISBN-10: 0313320748
• Artikelnr.: 22287630

Autorenporträt

June E. Roberts is Assistant Professor of English and African, African-American and Caribbean Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Origins of a Tradition: The Continuum of Caribbean Literature The
Informing Intellectual Climate Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Social
Constructions Bodber's Discursive Position Within and Without Caribbean
Literary Traditions and Tropes Women Writers and Feminism: A Canon of Their
Own Tropes and Concerns Reading the Text: The Sometimes Ambiguous Kumbla of
the folk in Jane and Louisa Getting Out of the Physical Kumbla and Getting
Back to the Spiritual Kumbla: Historisizing Textual Temporality Reading
Myal and Thwarting Spirit Thievery The Location of Spirit Thievery
Redemption Allegories and Myalism Tropes of the Harlem
Renaissance-Minstrelsy and Early 20th Century Black Representation African
Spirituality: The Ultimate Connection Intimations of Allegories of
Unification Epilogue Notes