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Legba's Crossing - Narratology in the African Atlantic (Hardcover, New)
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Legba's Crossing - Narratology in the African Atlantic (Hardcover, New)
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This book presents a descriptive critical theory for reading
African Atlantic aesthetic production. In Haiti, Papa Legba is the
spirit whose permission must be sought to communicate with the
spirit world. He stands at and for the crossroads of language,
interpretation, and form and is considered to be like the voice of
a god. In ""Legba's Crossing"", Heather Russell examines how
writers from the United States and the anglophone Caribbean
challenge conventional Western narratives through innovative use,
disruption, and reconfiguration of form. Russell's in-depth
analysis of the work of James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, Michelle
Cliff, Earl Lovelace, and John Edgar Wideman is framed in light of
the West African aesthetic principle of ashe, a quality ascribed to
art that transcends the prescribed boundaries of form. Ashe is
linked to the characteristics of improvisation and flexibility that
are central to jazz and other art forms. Russell argues that
African Atlantic writers self-consciously and self-reflexively
manipulate dominant forms that prescribe a certain trajectory of,
for example, enlightenment, civilization, or progress. She connects
this seemingly postmodern meta-analysis to much older West African
philosophy and its African Atlantic iterations, which she calls
'the Legba Principle'.
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