Spirituality As Ideology In Black Womens Film And Literature
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Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women's Film and Literature
Author | : Judylyn S. Ryan |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813923703 |
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Given the ways in which spirituality functions in the work of such Black women writers and filmmakers as Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Maya Angelou, Julie Dash, and Euzhan Palcy, Judylyn Ryan proposes in this challenging new study that what these women embrace in their narrative construction and characterization is the role and responsibility of the priestess, bearing and distributing life-force to sustain the community of people who read and view their work. Central to these women's vision of transformation is what Ryan calls a paradigm of growth and an ethos of interconnectedness, which provide interpretive models for examining and teaching a broad range of artistic, cultural, and social texts. The focus on theology provides a new way of viewing the connections among New World African diaspora religious traditions, challenging the widespread and reductive assumption that Afro-Christianity shares no philosophical commonalities with Santeria, Candomble ...
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