The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature (Castro Anne Margaret)(Paperback)

The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature (Castro Anne Margaret)(Paperback)

The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature (Castro Anne Margaret)(Paperback)

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From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines religion and sociopolitical power in modern and contemporary texts of a variety of genres from the black Americas. By engaging with spiritual traditions such as Vodou, Kumina, and Protestant Christianity while drawing on canonical Eurocentric literary theory, Anne Margaret Castro presents a novel, nuanced reading of power through the physical and metaphysical relationships portrayed in these great works of New World black literature.

Castro examines prophecy in the dramas of Derek Walcott, preaching in the ethnography of Zora Neale Hurston, and liturgy in the novels of Toni Morrison, offering comparative readings alongside the works of Afro-Colombian anthropologist Manuel

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