Paul Griffith Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Art and Ritual in the Black DiasporaCondition: NewSubtitle: Archetypes of TransitionAuthor: Paul GriffithFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 1498527434EAN: 9781498527439ISBN: 9781498527439Publisher: Lexington BooksGenre: HistoryTopic: Literary Criticism, Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Date: 12/14/2016Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 236mmItem Length: 161mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 517gBook Series: Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological PerspectivesRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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