Art and ritual in the Black diaspora : archetypes of transition /

Archetypes of Transition in Diaspora Art and Ritual examines residually oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and America. Colonial humanist violations and inverse issues of black cultural and psychological affirmation are indexed in terms of a visionary gestalt a...

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Main Author: Griffith, Paul A., 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Series:Black Atlantic cultural series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Journeys in Space and Spirit
  • 2.The Spirituals: The Nonduality of the Sacred
  • 3.Animate Authority of Word and Rite
  • 4.Plots and Counterplots
  • 5.The Quest for Divine Fullness
  • 6.Ritual Relocation of Self
  • 7.Alchemy as Transformational Magic.