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Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority (The New Southern Studies)
Keith Cartwright
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Paperback. Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, "Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways" places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalised invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. This interdisciplinary study slips beneath the bar of rigid national and literary periods, embarking upon deeper - more rhythmic and embodied - signatures of time. It swings low through ecologies and symbolic orders of creolised space. And it reappraises ... Read more
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalised invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. This interdisciplinary study slips beneath the bar of rigid national and literary periods, embarking upon deeper - more rhythmic and embodied - signatures of time. It swings low through ecologies and symbolic orders of creolised space. And it reappraises ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
New Southern Studies
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820345994
SKU
V9780820345994
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About Keith Cartwright
Keith Cartwright is an associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. He is the author of Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales; Junkanoo: A Christmas Pageant; and Saint-Louis: A Wool Strip-Cloth for Sekou Dabo.
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