Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora

Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781498527446
ISBN-13 : 1498527442
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Book Synopsis Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora by : Paul Griffith

Download or read book Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora written by Paul Griffith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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