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New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black
Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogical essays
that shed new light on the creative depths of Black women writers.
On the one hand, some Black women writers have been heavily
anthologized, they have more often than not been restricted by
critical metanarratives. Some of their works have been lionized
while others remain neglected. On the other hand, some Black women
writers have been ignored and understudied. This collection
corrects the gaps in our critical thinking about Black women
writers by introducing them to a new generation of undergraduate
and graduate students, and by presenting pedagogical essays to our
colleagues currently working in the field.
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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