Art and ritual in the black diaspora : archetypes of transition / / Paul Griffith
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| Autore: |
Griffith Paul
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| Titolo: |
Art and ritual in the black diaspora : archetypes of transition / / Paul Griffith
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD : , : Lexington Books, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896 |
| Soggetto topico: | African diaspora - Caribbean Area |
| African diaspora - America | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : journeys in space and spirit -- The spirituals : the nonduality of the sacred -- Animate authority of word and rite -- Plots and counterplots -- The quest for divine fullness -- Ritual relocation of self -- Alchemy as transformational magic. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Archetypes of Transition in Diaspora Art and Ritual examines residually oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and America. Colonial humanist violations and inverse issues of black cultural and psychological affirmation are indexed in terms of a visionary gestalt according to which inner and outer realities unify creatively in natural and metaphysical orders. Paul Griffith's central focus is hermeneutical, examining the way in which religious and secular symbols inherent in rite and word as in vodun, limbo, the spirituals, puttin' on ole massa, and dramatic and narrative structures, for example, are made basic to the liberating post-colonial struggle. This evident interpenetration of political and religious visions looks back to death-rebirth traditions through which African groups made sense of the intervention of evil into social order. Herein, moreover, the explanatory, epistemic, and therapeutic structures of art and ritual share correspondences with the mythic archetypes that Carl Jung posits as a psychological inheritance of human beings universally.-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Art and ritual in the black diaspora |
| ISBN: | 1-4985-2744-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825848003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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