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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This collection of critical essays on plays by African American
female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the
present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less
widely known African American women playwrights
The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public
discourse, and as explorations of issues of African American
identity. Essays explore the themes of sexuality, agency, anger,
and self-concept in the plays of African American Women.
With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black
Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the
way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African
spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African
spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black
authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora,
this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual
cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African
Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the
prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of
trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that
has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the
literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection
explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that
characterize African spiritual presence and influence in
trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works
ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B.
DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge
Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems
such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a
single published volume. This collection explores the deep and
often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of
people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.
With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black
Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the
way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African
spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African
spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black
authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora,
this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual
cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African
Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the
prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of
trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that
has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the
literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection
explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that
characterize African spiritual presence and influence in
trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works
ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B.
DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge
Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems
such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a
single published volume. This collection explores the deep and
often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of
people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.
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