Reading Erna Brodber
Subtitle: uniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion
By: June E. Roberts.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies,; no. 210
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Subjects: Brodber, Erna -- Criticism and interpretation.; Literature and folklore -- Caribbean Area.; Religion and literature -- Caribbean Area.; African Americans in literature.; Folklore in literature.; Religion in literature.; Blacks in literature.; Caribbean Area -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins of a tradition : the continuum of Caribbean literature; title: The informing intellectual climate; title: Interdisciplinary and interculture social constructions; title: Brodber's discursive position within and without Caribbean literary traditions and tropes; title: Women writers and feminism : a canon of their own tropes and concerns; title: Reading the text : the sometimes ambiguous Kumbla of the folk in Jane and Louisa; title: Getting out of the physical Kumbla and getting back to the spiritual Kumbla : historicizing textual temporality; title: Reading Myal and thwarting spirit thievery; title: The location of spirit thievery; title: Redemption allegories and Myalism; title: Tropes of the Harlem renaissance-minstrelsy and early 20th century Black representation; title: African spirituality the ultimate connection; title: Intimations of allegories of unification.