... primary ideal. The essay then considers a wide array of foreign authors such as Kafka, Camus, Woolf, Beckett, Proust, Faulkner, Borges, García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Alejo Carpentier, with a focus on the values and beliefs that underlie their works. village world literature ...

... Chapter 4, “Flying Home?,” continues the exploration of spirituality and asks where “home” was for Palmaristas. Using the famous stories of “flying Africans” that appear regularly in African American folklore and novels by authors such as Toni Morrison and Alejo Carpentier, the chapter suggests...

... primary ideal. The essay then considers a wide array of foreign authors such as Kafka, Camus, Woolf, Beckett, Proust, Faulkner, Borges, García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Alejo Carpentier, with a focus on the values and beliefs that underlie their works. ideals literature power ...

... and Alejo Carpentier, the chapter suggests why other forms of posthumous or “supernatural” flight must also enter discussions of Palmares. The chapter also uses Inquisition records to paint a fuller picture of spirituality and religious practices in Palmares and the larger captaincy, Pernambuco. What...