Product Description: With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology...read more

A Late Loving

Product Description: Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric--black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects of their work advance a critique of the assumptions underlying conventional perceptions and practice...read more

Product Description: This book extends our understanding of the Black Atlantic, a term coined by Paul Gilroy to describe the political, cultural and creative interrelations among blacks living in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Gilroy famously locates the beginning of Black Atlantic history in the Middle Passage, the mass transportation of slaves from Africa to the Caribbean...read more

Product Description: Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition...read more

Product Description: The title of this book, An Invincible Summer, is taken from the essay "Return to Tipasa" by Albert Camus. At the age of forty, Camus returned to the rain-drenched Algiers, "the city of summer," in order to experience again the beauty of his homeland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The title of this book, An Invincible Summer, is taken from the essay "Return to Tipasa" by Albert Camus. At the age of forty, Camus returned to the rain-drenched Algiers, "the city of summer," in order to experience again the beauty of his homeland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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