Description: Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity.
Brief description: KEITH CARTWRIGHT is an associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. He is the author of Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales; Junkanoo: A Christmas Pageant; and Saint-Louis: A Wool Strip-Cloth for Sekou Dabo.
Review Quotes:
Cartwright argues for a hermeneutics of inclusive reading practices of African diaspora literatures; a poetics of 'swing'; a reading strategy that understands geographical, cultural, narrative, linguistic, spiritual, racial, and historical multiplicities not as unbridgeable differences but as similar acts of survival ethics by peoples of the African diaspora in the Caribbean, the Deep South of the United States, and the Bahamas. A brilliant, necessary, and refreshing resource for all universities offering graduate courses in African diaspora, Caribbean, and American literary and cultural studies.
--Dr. Dannabang Kuwabong "professor in Caribbean literatures, University of Puerto Rico"