Title: Literary Expressions of African Spirituality
Description: "With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain's, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psycho-social connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: African literature (english), history and criticism, Caribbean literature, history and criticism, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, African diaspora, African literature, history and criticism, African literature (English), Black authors, History and criticism, Caribbean literature (English), American literature, African American authors, African diaspora in literature, Religious life and customs, Spirituality in literature