| Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora: Archetypes of Transition Contributor(s): Griffith, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498527434 ISBN-13: 9781498527439 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $109.89 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - History | Africa - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 2016960139 |
| Series: Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning the Literary, Vi |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 according to which inner and outer realities unify creatively in natural and metaphysical orders. Paul Griffith's central focus is hermeneutical, examining the way in which religious and secular symbols inherent in rite and word as in vodun, limbo, the spirituals, puttin' on ole massa, and dramatic and narrative structures, for example, are made basic to the liberating post-colonial struggle. This evident interpenetration of political and religious visions looks back to death-rebirth traditions through which African groups made sense of the intervention of evil into social order. Herein, moreover, the explanatory, epistemic, and therapeutic structures of art and ritual share correspondences with the mythic archetypes that Carl Jung posits as a psychological inheritance of human beings universally. |