247 p., Discusses the diasporic origins of Palo Mayombe, a Kongo-Cuban religious tradition, while seeking to analyze how it fulfills, in a new transplanted setting, the spiritual needs of a given segment of the Cuban immigrant population in the United States—designated here as the “strangers in a new land”—“serving not only as a healing mechanism but also a vehicle towards the preservation of ethnic and cultural identity.”
Review also covers Whither Thou Goest -- Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country by Carl A. Brasseaux and others; and 'Who Set You Flowin'?' by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Crahan,Margaret E. (Author) and Knight,Franklin W. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
159 p, Contents: The African migration and the origins of an Afro-American society and culture / Franklin W. Knight and Margaret E. Crahan; The cultural links / Harry Hoetnik;
African and Creole slave family patterns in Trinidad / B.W. Higman; Myalism and the African religious tradition in Jamaica / Monica Schuler; Jamaican Jonkonnu and related Caribbean festivals / Judith Bettelheim; The African impact on language and literature in the English-speaking Caribbean / Maureen Warner Lewis; The African presence in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén / Lorna V. Williams.
