Reading Erna Brodber

Uniting the Black Diaspora through Folk Culture and Religion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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June Roberts explores the complicated post-colonial infrastructure of Caribbean society and life as an African American through the work of Erna Brodber. Brodber's novels Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, MYAL, and Louisiana all explore various facets of the Caribbean and African American experiences, and Roberts greatly adds to their value through her commentary and interpretation. While she uses Erna Brodber's books' organizing themes as a home base, Roberts doesn't limit her work to strict criticism and analysis of the novels. Instead, she traces countless issues as varied as the nuances of the Caribbean psyche, the importance of matriarchs, traditional slave dances, obeahs, Santeria and other African-based religious expressions, as well as politics and history, and the perspectives of past and present scholars of the Caribbean and African-American experience. Most importantly, Roberts investigates how the colonial system's exploitation and dehumanization of the black people affected their spirits. This text is broad enough to appeal to all enthusiasts of Caribbean and African-American topics, and it can especially benefit academic courses related to these topics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-03-30
Mått156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
Antal sidor292
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313320743

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PrefaceOrigins of a Tradition: The Continuum of Caribbean LiteratureThe Informing Intellectual ClimateInterdisciplinary and Intercultural Social ConstructionsBodber's Discursive Position Within and Without Caribbean Literary Traditions and TropesWomen Writers and Feminism: A Canon of Their Own Tropes and ConcernsReading the Text: The Sometimes Ambiguous Kumbla of the folk in Jane and LouisaGetting Out of the Physical Kumbla and Getting Back to the Spiritual Kumbla: Historisizing Textual TemporalityReading Myal and Thwarting Spirit ThieveryThe Location of Spirit ThieveryRedemption Allegories and MyalismTropes of the Harlem Renaissance-Minstrelsy and Early 20th Century Black RepresentationAfrican Spirituality: The Ultimate ConnectionIntimations of Allegories of UnificationEpilogueNotes

Jamaican novelist, anthropologist, historian, and sociologist Erna Brodber became a prominent West Indian writer during the second half of the 20th century. Her Afro-centric works emphasize the importance of ancestral spirituality and aesthetics, connecting to a vital cultural past. This first full-length study of Brodber includes several chapters of pertinent background material, then detailed analyses of three of Brodner's novels: Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Myal, and Louisiana. Discussing such elements as allegory, irony, feminism, and syncretism, Roberts places Brodber within the context of the wider Caribbean and the Americas through comparisons with other writers, notably Zora Neale Hurston, Marcus Garvey, and W. E. B. Du Bois….Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.