Joyce White

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat (eBook, PDF)

Crossroads as Ritual

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual employs nature, literary tradition, and the cosmogram to examine Danticat's fiction as textual sites imbued with ritual and conducive for healing and clarifying Africana diasporic consciousness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978776333
• Artikelnr.: 74397874

Autorenporträt

Joyce White is assistant professor of Gullah Geechee Literature and Cultures at Georgia Southern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Home is Where the Healing Is: Ritual Pathways to Home
Chapter 1: They Did Not Come Alone: Towards a Theoretical Framework
Chapter 2: At the Crossroads: Rituals of Death in Danticat's The Dew
Breaker
Chapter 3: Lót Bót Dlo (The Other Side of The Water): Examining the
Cosmogram in Danticat's The Farming of Bones
Chapter 4: A Seat at The Table: Constructing Identity in Danticat's Claire
of the Sea Light
Chapter 5: "May These Words Bring Wings to Your Feet": Re-membering
Ancestral Healing in Breath, Eyes, Memory
Conclusion: Existing Beyond the Gaze: Finding Home in the Works of Edwidge
Danticat