The Caribbean Oral Tradition

Literature, Performance, and Practice
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-32087-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4048 g

The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy. It defines the innovative prism of interorality as the systematic transposition of previously composed storytales into new and distinct tales. The book offers a powerful consideration of the interconnections between Caribbean orality and Caribbean philosophy, especially as this pertains to aesthetics and ethics. This is a new area of thought, a new methodological approach and a new conceptual paradigm and proposition to scholars, students, writers, artists and intellectuals who conceive and examine intellectual and cultural productions in the Black Atlantic world and beyond.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vété-Congolo, Hanétha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Oral History (Zeitzeugen)
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Hanétha Vété-Congolo.- Foreword Olufemi Vaughan.- Preface Connected by Narratives: Thinking as Creation and Resistance Jean Godefroy Bidima.- Caribbean Interorality: A Brief Introduction Hanétha Vété-Congolo.- Interorality and Caribbean Philosophy Paget Henry.-.Crossing Spirits, Negotiating Cultures: Transmigration, Transculturation, and Interorality in Cuban Espiritismo Solimar Otero.- Orality and the Slave Sublime John Drabinski.- Utterance, Against Orality, Beyond Textuality Michael Birenbaum.- Boukman in Books: Tracing a Legendary Genealogy Paul Miller.- Afterword Gordon Lewis.

Über Autor(innen)

Hanétha Vété-Congolo is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College, Maine, USA. She is affiliated to the Africana Studies Program, the Latin American Studies Program and the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Program of her institution. Situated in the Africana Critical Theory field, her scholarship focuses principally on Caribbean and African ideas, philosophy, literature and orality. Her articles are published in refereed journals and anthologies such as The CLR. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas and Ethiopiques. Revue négro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie.