Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing

Catherine A. John Camara

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Clear Word and Third Sight

Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing

Catherine A. John Camara
Edited by: Donald E. Pease

In the series New Americanists

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385097

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About this book

An exploration of the implicit and explicit ways that an alternate African diasporic consciousness, grounded in folk mores, is expressed in Afro-Caribbean writing.

Author / Editor information

Catherine A. John is Assistant Professor of African Diasporic Literature at the University of Oklahoma.

Reviews

“Clear Word and Third Sight casts new light upon the argument of alternative consciousness by using relatively unknown writers and poets, particularly from the English and French West Indies, along with better known diasporic and American writers. It will be of significant interest to scholars concerned with discourses of difference rooted in notions of being and understanding that are not Western or Euro-centered.”—Percy C. Hintzen, author of West Indian in the West: Self-Representations in an Immigrant Community

“Clear Word and Third Sight itself offers clarity and vision in a new and insightful reading of African diaspora literatures. Catherine A. John offers a necessary revisiting of negritude, a confidence in her examination of coloniality and gendered identity, and an embrace of magic and spirit and poetry.”—Carole Boyce Davies, Florida International University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Alternate Consciousness in the Diaspora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Paris in 1956: Negritude and Cultural Discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2 Colonial Legacies, Gender Identity, and Black Female Writing in the Diaspora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3 Negritude and Negativity: Alienation and ‘‘Voice’’ in Eastern Caribbean Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
4 Diaspora Philosophy, French Caribbean Literature, and Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
5 The Spoken Word and Spirit Consciousness: Audre Lorde and Paule Marshall’s Diasporic Voice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 248

eBook

Published: October 31, 2003
ISBN: 9780822385097