Reading Erna Brodber: uniting the black diaspora through folk culture and religion

Abstract

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

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