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Returning to the cosmological and ontological center of Africana spirituality, Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual explores the ways in which Danticat texts awaken Africana consciousness and clarify identity and subjectivity.
"As an extended exploration of the cosmogram in four of Edwidge Danticat’s best-known novels, Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual makes a powerful case that Black life in diaspora is a recursive, cyclical, cosmologically unique experience singular to African peoples. Through a critical study of the narrative and spiritual functions of crossroads, pathways, bridges, passages, and intersections, Joyce White brilliantly illuminates how Danticat creates in her fictional worlds both figurative and literal homelands for Africana women, whose radical spiritual healing communities enable diasporic peoples to survive and thrive. White’s insistence on the importance of Africana spiritual traditions to Black women’s existence in diaspora is always illuminating and inspiring, shedding light on too-often neglected discourses of healing and community that have always animated Black life in diaspora. White’s book is a must-read for scholars interested in Danticat’s extensive treatment of magic, cosmology, and spirituality in lives of Africana diasporic women."
"This book, framing Danticat’s works as a project of cosmological reclamation, accomplishes a deep examination of how the crossroads—as structure and metaphor—inform the author’s rendering of the embodied, geographic, and spiritual dimensions of diaspora. White’s important work underscores ritual as central to engendering African survivals in the Americas."
Joyce White is assistant professor of English in Gullah Geechee Literature and Cultures at Georgia Southern University.