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Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways - Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority (Hardcover, New)
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Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways - Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority (Hardcover, New)
Series: The New Southern Studies
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"We're seeing people that we didn't know exist," the director of
FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "Sacral
Grooves, Limbo Gateways" offers a corrective to some of America's
institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged
networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history, and
migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the
Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. This interdisciplinary
study slips beneath the bar of rigid national and literary periods,
embarking upon deeper--more rhythmic and embodied--signatures of
time. It swings low through ecologies and symbolic orders of
creolized space. And it reappraises pluralistic modes of knowledge,
kinship, and authority that have sustained vital forms of agency
(such as jazz) amid abysses of racialized trauma.
Drawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban
and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist
(Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with
otherness, this book reemplaces deep-southern texts within the
counterclockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity.
Turning to an orphan girl's West African initiation tale to follow
a remarkably traveled body of feminine rites and writing (in works
by Paule Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Cabrera, William
Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and LeAnne Howe, among others),
Cartwright argues that only in holistic form, emergent from gulfs
of cross-cultural witness, can literary and humanistic authority
find legitimacy. Without such grounding, he contends, our
educational institutions blind and even poison students, bringing
them to "swallow lye," like the grandson of Phoenix Jackson in
Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path." Here, literary study may open
pathways to alternative medicines--fetched by tenacious avatars
like Phoenix (or an orphan Kumba or a shell-shaking Turtle)--to
remedy the lies our partial histories have made us swallow.
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