Sacred act of reading, the: spirituality, performance, and power in afro-diasporic literature
Auteur :
Castro, Anne Margaret
Éditeur :
University of Virginia Press
ISBN :
9780813943459
Date de publication :
30 déc. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,1 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
419 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines religion and sociopolitical power in modern and contemporary texts of a variety of genres from the black Americas.