Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora - Archetypes of Transition (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
Release date:	December 2016
Authors:	Paul Griffith
Dimensions:	236 x 161 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	268
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-2743-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	1-4985-2743-4
Barcode:	9781498527439

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