{"product_id":"clear-word-and-third-sight-folk-groundings-and-diasporic-consciousness-in-african-caribbean-writing-9780822332220","title":"Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Catherine A. John\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Caribbean \u0026amp; Latin American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClear Word and Third Sight\u003c\/i\u003e examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or \"third sight,\" is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating an alternate philosophical \"worldsense\" linking those of African descent across space and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContesting popular discourses about what constitutes culture and maintaining that neglected strains in negritude discourse provide a crucial philosophical perspective on the connections between folk practices, cultural memory, and collective consciousness, John examines the diasporic principles in the work of the negritude writers L�on Damas, Aim� C�saire, and L�opold Senghor. She traces the manifestations and reworkings of their ideas in Afro-Caribbean writing from the eastern and French Caribbean, as well as the Caribbean diaspora in the United States. The authors she discusses include Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, and Edouard Glissant, among others. John argues that by incorporating what she calls folk groundings-such as poems, folktales, proverbs, and songs-into their work, Afro-Caribbean writers invoke a psychospiritual consciousness which combines old and new strategies for addressing the ongoing postcolonial struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47589220417687,"sku":"9780822332220","price":3331.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822332220.webp?v=1774968802","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/clear-word-and-third-sight-folk-groundings-and-diasporic-consciousness-in-african-caribbean-writing-9780822332220","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}