The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature

by Anne Margaret Castro

From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines religion and sociopolitical power in modern and contemporary texts of a variety of genres from the black Americas. By engaging with spiritual traditions such as Vodou, Kumina, and Protestant Christianity while drawing on canonical Eurocentric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813943442
• ISBN13: 9780813943442
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"