Ecology, spirituality, and cosmology in Edwidge Danticat : crossroads as ritual
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Ecology, spirituality, and cosmology in Edwidge Danticat : crossroads as ritual
（Environment and religion in feminist-womanist, queer, and indigenous perspectives）
Lexington Books, c2023
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-155) and index
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Description
Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual examines the form and function of ritual in four of Danticat's fictional works-The Dew Breaker; The Farming of Bones; Claire of the Sea Light; and Breath, Eyes, Memory-to reveal how these texts create textual topography that heals and clarifies Africana consciousness. Filtering ritual through the symbolic iconography of the cosmogram and Africana women's literary tradition, Joyce White investigates modern articulations of the cosmogram's cosmological and philosophical iterations within the life and existence of Africana people and establishes set systems and beliefs that are manifest through ritual practices. White argues that emblemed by the cruciform symbol of the crossroads, the cosmogram within Danticat's texts emanates extendable textual, liminal, and ritualized spaces through the inscription of the symbol that exists within and without the boundaries of pagination. The extension of textual landscape expands the borders and boundaries of a given text and provides additional space for contemplation and rumination incongruent to those spaces in its common and normal iterations.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction: Home is Where the Healing Is: Ritual Pathways to Home
Chapter 1: They Did Not Come Alone: Towards a Theoretical Framework
Chapter 2: At the Crossroads: Rituals of Death in Danticat's The Dew Breaker
Chapter 3: Lot Bot Dlo (The Other Side of The Water): Examining the Cosmogram in Danticat's The Farming of Bones
Chapter 4: A Seat at The Table: Constructing Identity in Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light
Chapter 5: "May These Words Bring Wings to Your Feet": Re-membering Ancestral Healing in Breath, Eyes, Memory
Conclusion: Existing Beyond the Gaze: Finding Home in the Works of Edwidge Danticat
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