African regligious influences on three black women novelists; the aesthetics of "Vodun" (Zora Neale Hurston, Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Paule Marshall).9780773455283 African regligious influences on three black women novelists; the aesthetics of "Vodun" (Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. , Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Paule Marshall Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose. ). Smith, Maria T. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2007 145 pages $99.95 Hardcover PS153 Smith (African-American and Caribbean literature Caribbean literature is the term generally accepted for the literature of the various territories of the Caribbean region. Literature in English specifically from the former British West Indies may be referred to as Anglo-Caribbean or, in historical contexts, , St. Francis College, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) initiates a new field of inquiry is her assessment of novels by women writers of the African diaspora The African diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and cultures of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia. . Choosing such works as Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Simone Schwartz-Bart's The Bridge of Beyond and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, Smith shows how connection to Africa as both a real and mythical place and consideration of Africa in terms of colonialism and post-colonialism, the play of anthropology and theology, literary theory and trans-Atlantic forms of ritual and vernacular culture, particularly Vodun, which is understood as voodoo in the case of the Americas. The result is a fascinating assessment not only of the literary works on their own right but also of their witnessing of the social and political forces that made these writers vodun initiates. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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