Sacral grooves, limbo gateways : travels in deep Southern time, Circum-Caribbean space, Afro-Creole authority / / Keith Cartwright

• Autore: Cartwright Keith <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Athens : , : University of Georgia Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 305.896/073075
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Southern States - Social life and customs; Creoles - Southern States - Social life and customs; Black people - Caribbean Area - Social life and customs; Creoles - Caribbean Area - Social life and customs; Space and time - Social aspects; Authority - Social aspects; American literature - Southern States - History and criticism; Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Social life and customs; Caribbean Area Social life and customs
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Invocation: To Bust Your Shell -- Introduction: Reborn Again : Orphan Initiations, Motherless Lands -- Part One. The Ancestral House -- Down to the Mire : Travels, Shouts & Saraka in Atlantic Praise- housings -- Lift Every Voice and Swing : James Weldon Johnson's God-met Places and Native Lands -- Part Two. Les Invisibles -- Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans -- Making Faces at the Sublime : Momentum from within Creole City -- Part Three. Sangre y Monte -- "Come and Gaze on a Mystery" : Zora Neale Hurston's Rain-Bringing Authority -- Vamanos pa'l Monte : Into Florida's Repeating Bush -- Envoi: White [Wo]men Have Never Known What to Do with Their Blood : Gulf Carriers & Sanguine Knowledge.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 institutionalized 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 creolized space. And it reappraises pluralistic modes of knowledge, kinship, and authority that have sustained vital forms of agency (such as jazz) amid abysses of racialized trauma. Drawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban and South Floridian Santería, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness, this book repalces deep-southern texts within the counter clockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity. Turning to an orphan girl's West African initiation tale to follow a remarkably travelled body of feminine rites and writing (in works by Paule Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Cabrera, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and LeAnne Howe, among others), Cartwright argues that only in holistic form, emergent from gulfs of cross-cultural witness, can literary and humanistic authority find legitimacy. Without such grounding, he contends, our educational institutions blind and even poison students, bringing them to "swallow lye," like the grandson of Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path." Here, literary study may open pathways to alternative medicines--fetched by tenacious avatars like Phoenix (or an orphan Kumba or a shell-shaking Turtle)--to remedy the lies our partial histories have made us swallow.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sacral grooves, limbo gateways
• ISBN: 0-8203-4599-7; 0-8203-4213-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822736203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New southern studies.