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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Mediating Sacred Time and Space
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Front Matter
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Oratorical Play
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Back Matter
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"Interested readers will no doubt approach this volume with the expectation of learning more about poets like Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott, and they will not be disappointed." - Review of Texas Books
"Griffith s scholarship is remarkably thorough. In using the notion of the tidealectic as his controlling trope, the author manages to link a vast body of oral tradition - both literary and nonliterary - to the primal natural archetype of island cultures. This is perhaps best demonstrated in his fascinating analysis of the symbolic patterns embodied in the Limbo dance - the ebb and flow, the death and resurrection - which becomes a metaphor for the Middle Passage, the hell of slavery, and the eventual rise of free, post-colonial cultures. As the author says, It is this metaphorical rhythm of retrieval and advance, death and rebirth . . . that gives conceptual unity to a range of forms and styles in Caribbean residually oral art. " - R. S. Gwynn, editor of the Penguin Pocket Anthology
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual
Authors: Paul A. Griffith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106529
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62364-4Published: 11 June 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38495-2Published: 11 June 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10652-9Published: 26 April 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 219
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, North American Literature