Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures - Softcover

Warner-Lewis, Maureen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9766401187 ISBN 13: 9789766401184

Publisher: University Press of the West Indies, 2002

Synopsis

A sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean. This long-awaited study is based on more than three decades of research and analysis. Scholars will be fascinated with the transatlantic comparative data. The author identifies Central African cultural forms in those areas settled in Africa by the Koongo, Mbundu, and Ovimbunde. (The modern-day locations of these three ethnic groups are present-day Congo, Zaire and Angola.) The book illuminates Caribbean thought and practice by comparison with Central African worldview and custom. The work is based on extensive primary and secondary sources, oral interviews, letters and diaries, folktales, proverbs and songs. In its multidisciplinary approach and depth, it highlights the debate concerning the origin and transformation of cultural forms in the Caribbean against a larger background of African culture, economy, colonialism, slavery, emancipation and independence. With its Central African focus, the book is a pioneering perspective on Caribbean cultural forms. A noted linguist, the author uses her knowledge of the most functional languages

About this title

About the Author:

Maureen Warner-Lewis is Professor of African-Caribbean Language and Orature, Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and the author of over twenty articles and books.

Review:

"A substantial contribution to cultural studies in the Caribbean...intellectually gripping." - Professor Barbara Lalla

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of the West Indies
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9766401187
• ISBN 13: 9789766401184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428