Beschreibung:
Catherine A. John is Assistant Professor of African Diasporic Literature at the University of Oklahoma.
An exploration of the implicit and explicit ways that an alternate African diasporic consciousness, grounded in folk mores, is expressed in Afro-Caribbean writing.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Alternate Consciousness in the Diaspora 11 Paris in 1956: Negritude and Cultural Discourse 212 Colonial Legacies, Gender Identity, and Black Female Writing in the Diaspora 433 Negritude and Negativity: Alienation and "Voice" in Eastern Caribbean Literature 744 Diaspora Philosophy, French Caribbean Literature, and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle 1145 The Spoken Word and Spirit Consciousness: Audre Lorde and Paule Marshall's Diasporic Voice 158Afterword 203Notes 211Bibliography 227Index 237