{"product_id":"sacral-grooves-limbo-gateways-travels-in-deep-southern-time-circum-caribbean-space-afro-creole-authority-paperback","title":"Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-Creole Authority - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Cartwright\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We're seeing people that we didn't know exist,\" the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. \u003ci\u003eSacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways\u003c\/i\u003e offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history, and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. This interdisciplinary study slips beneath the bar of rigid national and literary periods, embarking upon deeper--more rhythmic and embodied--signatures of time. It swings low through ecologies and symbolic orders of creolized space. And it reappraises pluralistic modes of knowledge, kinship, and authority that have sustained vital forms of agency (such as jazz) amid abysses of racialized trauma. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban and South Floridian Santer a, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness, this book reemplaces deep-southern texts within the counterclockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity. Turning to an orphan girl's West African initiation tale to follow a remarkably traveled body of feminine rites and writing (in works by Paule Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Cabrera, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and LeAnne Howe, among others), Cartwright argues that only in holistic form, emergent from gulfs of cross-cultural witness, can literary and humanistic authority find legitimacy. Without such grounding, he contends, our educational institutions blind and even poison students, bringing them to \"swallow lye,\" like the grandson of Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's \"A Worn Path.\" Here, literary study may open pathways to alternative medicines--fetched by tenacious avatars like Phoenix (or an orphan Kumba or a shell-shaking Turtle)--to remedy the lies our partial histories have made us swallow.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKEITH CARTWRIGHT is an associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eReading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJunkanoo: A Christmas Pageant\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSaint-Louis: A Wool Strip-Cloth for Sekou Dabo\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757866516768,"sku":"9780820345994","price":59.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b55c8f7f55036f498c8499c363010119.webp?v=1780113518","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sacral-grooves-limbo-gateways-travels-in-deep-southern-time-circum-caribbean-space-afro-creole-authority-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}