Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual (Paperback, 1st ed. 2010)

Focusing on orally transmitted cultural forms in the Caribbean, this book reaffirms the importance of myth and symbol in folk consciousness as a mode of imaginative conceptualization. Paul A. Griffith cross-references Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott s postcolonial debates with issues at seminal sites where Caribbean imaginary insurgencies took root. This book demonstrates the ways residually oral forms distilled history, society, and culture to cleverly resist aggressions authored through colonialist presumptions. In an analysis of the archetypal patterns in the oral tradition - both literary and nonliterary, this impressive book gives insight into the way in which people think about the world and represent themselves in it.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	P. Griffith
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	219
Edition:	1st ed. 2010
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-38495-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	1-349-38495-X
Barcode:	9781349384952

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