Signs Of Diaspora Diaspora Of Signs

Author : Grey Gundaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355385
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs written by Grey Gundaker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It shows that African-Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings. Distinct from conventional script literacy on the one hand, and oral culture on the other, these "creolized" vernacular practices include writing in charms, use of personal or nondecodable scripts, the strategic renunciation of reading and writing as communicative tools, and writing that is linked to divination, trance, and possession. Based on extensive ethnographic research in the Southeastern United States and the West Indies, Gundaker offers a complex portrait of the intersection of "outsider" conventions with "insider" knowledge and practice.

Author : Grey Gundaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195107691
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Diaspora/diaspora of Signs written by Grey Gundaker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the interplay of cultural trajectories and sign systems in the African diaspora, particularly in the U.S., Gundaker shows that African Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings.

Author : Alexis Brooks De Vita
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signatures and Signs written by Alexis Brooks De Vita and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725230895
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Americans and the Bible written by Vincent L. Wimbush and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other group of people has been as much formed by biblical texts and tropes as African Americans. From literature and the arts to popular culture and everyday life, the Bible courses through black society and culture like blood through veins. Despite the enormous recent interest in African American religion, relatively little attention has been paid to the diversity of ways in which African Americans have utilized the Bible. African Americans and the Bible is the fruit of a four-year collaborative research project directed by Vincent L. Wimbush and funded by the Lilly Endowment. It brings together scholars and experts (sixty-eight in all) from a wide range of academic and artistic fields and disciplines--including ethnography, cultural history, and biblical studies as well as art, music, film, dance, drama, and literature. The focus is on the interaction between the people known as African Americans and that complex of visions, rhetorics, and ideologies known as the Bible. As such, the book is less about the meaning(s) of the Bible than about the Bible and meaning(s), less about the world(s) of the Bible than about how worlds and the Bible interact--in short, about how a text constructs a people and a people constructs a text. It is about a particular sociocultural formation but also about the dynamics that obtain in the interrelation between any group of people and sacred texts in general. Thus African Americans and the Bible provides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.

Author : Jacqueline Wigfall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692960547
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaspora Cognitive Linguistics written by Jacqueline Wigfall and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphorically, hieroglyphs limn contemporary people and things.

Author : Kellie Jones
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374161
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South of Pico written by Kellie Jones and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, L.A.'s urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility. Jones characterizes their works as modern migration narratives that look to the past to consider real and imagined futures. She also attends to these artists' relationships with gallery and museum culture and the establishment of black-owned arts spaces. With South of Pico, Jones expands the understanding of the histories of black arts and creativity in Los Angeles and beyond.

Author : Jualynne E. Dodson
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826343538
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba written by Jualynne E. Dodson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.

Author : Cynthia A. Young
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822336914
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soul Power written by Cynthia A. Young and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul Power is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls “U.S. Third World Leftists,” activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the “long 1960s.” Nearly thirty countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America declared formal independence in the 1960s alone. Arguing that the significance of this wave of decolonization to U.S. activists has been vastly underestimated, Young describes how literature, films, ideologies, and political movements that originated in the Third World were absorbed by U.S. activists of color. She shows how these transnational influences were then used to forge alliances, create new vocabularies and aesthetic forms, and describe race, class, and gender oppression in the United States in compelling terms. Young analyzes a range of U.S. figures and organizations, examining how each deployed Third World discourse toward various cultural and political ends. She considers a trip that LeRoi Jones, Harold Cruse, and Robert F. Williams made to Cuba in 1960; traces key intellectual influences on Angela Y. Davis’s writing; and reveals the early history of the hospital workers’ 1199 union as a model of U.S. Third World activism. She investigates Newsreel, a late 1960s activist documentary film movement, and its successor, Third World Newsreel, which produced a seminal 1972 film on the Attica prison rebellion. She also considers the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American artists who made films about conditions in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. By demonstrating the breadth, vitality, and legacy of the work of U.S. Third World Leftists, Soul Power firmly establishes their crucial place in the history of twentieth-century American struggles for social change.

Author : Sheena Michele Mason
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030999440
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory of Racelessness written by Sheena Michele Mason and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a skeptical eliminativist philosophy of race and the theory of racelessness, a methodological and pedagogical framework for analyzing "race" and racism. It explores the history of skeptical eliminativism and constructionist eliminativism within the history of African American philosophy and literary studies and its consistent connection with movements for civil rights. Sheena M. Mason considers how current anti-racist efforts reflect naturalist conservationist and constructionist reconstructionist philosophies of race that prevent more people from fully confronting the problem of racism, not race, thereby enabling racism to persist. She then offers a three-part solution for how scholars and people aspiring toward anti-racism can avoid unintentionally upholding racism, using literary studies as a case study to show how "race" often translates into racism itself. The theory of racelessness helps more people undo racism by undoing the belief in "race."

Author : Rüdiger Ahrens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311040804X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbolism 14 written by Rüdiger Ahrens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas? How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the academic fields contributing to diaspora studies? Which symbols and symbolic practices inform the academic study of diasporas, sometimes unconsciously or without being remarked on? To study these phenomena is to engage in a dialogue that aims at refining the theoretical and methodological vocabulary and practice of truly transdisciplinary diaspora studies while attending to the imperative of specificity that inheres in this emerging field. The volume collects a range of analyses from social anthropology, history and ethnography to literary and film studies, all combining readings of individual symbolic practices with meta-theoretical reflections.