Nation Dance
Subtitle: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780253338358
Subjects: Comparative religion; Cultural studies; Ethnology And Ethnography; Religion (General); Ethnic Issues; Religion; Caribbean islands; Ethnic & Tribal; Ethnic Studies - General; History; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Caribbean Area; Ethnicity; Religion and culture
First sentence: In Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, Papa Legba beckons the sterile imaginary of a homogenized middle class to open itself to the world in an ancestral dance into the future.