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.
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways is an excellent effort in theorizing
and performing the links between the creole zones of the Caribbean,
of the U.S. South, and of West Africa. The motifs of the sacred,
the sublime, and the spiritual are called upon in order to
demonstrate that the fragmentation and displacement experienced
during diaspora and slavery created a unity that brings together
these geographically discrete morsels. Cartwright, moving fluidly
across languages, genres, and modes of interpretation, demonstrates
compelling mastery of many different subjects.--Valerie Loichot
"author of Orphan Narratives and The Tropics Bite Back"
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"
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