Africa and the Caribbean: Legacies of a Link (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture) - Hardcover

Crahan, Professor Margaret C.

 
9780801821868: Africa and the Caribbean: Legacies of a Link (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)

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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.

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