TY - BOOK AU - Marsh-Lockett,Carol P. AU - West,Elizabeth TI - Literary expressions of African spirituality SN - 9780739181430 AV - PR9340.5 U1 - 809.93382996 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - African literature (English) KW - Black authors KW - History and criticism KW - Caribbean literature (English) KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - African diaspora in literature KW - African diaspora KW - Religious life and customs KW - Spirituality in literature KW - Littérature africaine (anglaise) KW - Auteurs noirs KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature antillaise (anglaise) KW - Africains KW - Pays étrangers, dans la littérature KW - Pays étrangers KW - Vie religieuse KW - Spiritualité dans la littérature KW - RELIGION KW - Christianity KW - Literature & the Arts KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Literatur KW - gnd KW - Englisch KW - Schwarze KW - Spiritualität KW - Religion KW - Diaspora KW - Afrika KW - Karibik KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: African spirituality and the Ameri-Atlantic world / Carol Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West -- Section 1. Imagining African faith systems in the postmodern world -- The gods who speak in many voices, and in none: African novelists on indigenous and colonial religion / John C. Hawley -- Reading spirit: cosmological considerations in Garfield Linton's Voodoomation:a book of foretelling / Melvin Rahming -- From "Pythian madness" to an "inner ethic of self-sacrifice": the spirits of Africa and modernity in Du Bois's late writings / James Manigault-Bryant -- Rituals of remembrance: trauma, memory, and spiritual practice in Zakes Mda's The heart of redness / Erica L. Still -- Section 2. Integrations of the African and the Western in New World Black Atlantic writing -- The body of vodou: corporeality and the location of gender in Afro-diasporic religion / Roberto Strongman -- Hoodoo ladies and high conjurers: new directions for an old archetype / Kameelah Martin -- From Africa to America by way of the Caribbean: fictionalized histories of the diasporic slave woman's presence in America / Artress Bethany White -- Section 3. African deities and divinations as forces in New World black works -- Expressions of African-based spirituality in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Beauty Bragg -- Waiting for Olodumare: Ishmael Reed and the recovery of Yoruba / Darryl Dickson-Carr -- Testing and changing: Esu and Oya "making it do what it do" in The best man / Georgene Bess Montgomery -- Cuban utopianism and Haitian messiah: spiritual provocations of collective catalyst in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the dew / Mario Chandler N2 - With its range of subject texts, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality builds a critical framework for exploring the presence and import of African spirituality in black Ameri-Atlantic artistic musings. These essays illustrate the intricate network of African spiritual transportations and transformations among New World and continental African literatures UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=562322 ER -