Search Results for Kongo

.... Linguistic fieldwork further led into concerns with religious, culinary, and musical folkways, as well as biographical investigation. Outlines of Warner-Lewis’s writings on the Caribbean and on Caribbean cultures inspired by Yoruba, Igbo, and Kongo matrices are presented. [email protected] ©...

... that the assessment of Africa’s entanglement with the region is ongoing. [email protected] © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Mona University of the West Indies literary criticism Yoruba Kongo “You enter the yard from a wide unpaved roadway, pushing at a large zinc door that opens on to a square...

... religious legacy. In particular, it draws from two religious systems: Palo Monte Mayombe, of Kongo origin, and Santería, of Yoruba origin. 22 These two religious practices are not exclusive—Palo Monte and Figure 1. Clara Morera, Tarot de la pintura ( Tarot of Painting ), leaflet, 1979. Courtesy...

... with their serviteurs on slave ships from Kongo and Dahomey (inter alia)—in ball gowns, sashes, epaulets, and tiaras raided from the wardrobes of colonial Saint-Domingue. Pierre poses them in Lavilokan (the City of Camps), a divine Versailles whose lush foliage has all but disappeared from Haiti...

..., inventing our own imaginary islands. We, the disenfranchised, fragmented, and marginalized youth—the black, brown, and beige vanguard learning the ancient codes, speaking a new patois: racialized shape-shifters, reinventing a new black identity. In 1483 the Portuguese sailed into the Kongo...

... with the Elements of Kongo Ancestor Worship,” Journal of Black Studies 29, no. 3 (1999): 324–53. 3 Ren Ellis Neyra, The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020), 70 (hereafter cited in the text). 2 Ibid., 184. 1 See Harry Franqui...

.... 28 To learn more about the weakening of African political institutions, see Anne Hilton, The Kingdom of Kongo (New York: Clarendon, 1985); John K. Thornton, The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641–1718 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983); Joseph C. Miller, Way of Death...

... Island : What is the essence of creole culture? 80 While most scholars ascribe to the sacred twin deities a slave provenance, since the cult of the twins has long been so popular among the Kongo and Yoruba peoples—ethnic groups prominent during the eighteenth-century slave trade to Hispaniola...

... by the appearance on the scene of Niambo, about whom Donald Cosentino writes: In this painted tableau, a prostrate Titid (as Aristide is aff ectionately known) lies sprawled before the putschist generals, separated by the tragicomic form of Niambo, the Kongo personifi cation...

... children were called ngba-kongo (stay-in-the-Congo). 25 Yet, in Benítez-Rojo's dark horse poetics, a family romance in which a Cuban writer claiming filiation to and maternal protection from “two old black women” is possible, although he does claim these women malgré elles (unbeknownst to them) (10...

...: Ministerio de Cultura, 2005); James Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441–1770 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003); Jason R. Young, Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era...

... mourning rite, drawing perhaps on the sympathetic magic in African uses of figurines, such as the spirit-inhabited or mediating nkisi of the Kongo and the fetishes of West Africa, influences on African Caribbean Vodoun, Obeah, and other indigenized but often maligned or suppressed spiritual practices...

... connections) as, say, African, Kongo, Fon, Ewe, or something else? 194  |  African American Memory at the Crossroads: Grounding the Miraculous with Tooy questions about the experience of Africans and their descendants in the Americas—including the fundamentally important...

...: Metapictures and the Discourse of Violence in Caribbean Art inside of the frame: skulls and crossbones, the crescent moon, snakes, primordial lizards, crosses, and sunbursts. In Kongo cosmology, many of these symbols mark the painting as a point of transition, a crossroad between...

... Quow verses and sketches around 1870, he would have been regularly in direct contact with plantation workers as an overseer. Cruickshank records that McTurk “had charge of a gang of native Africans (Kongo), and got his first insight into African character and Negro dialect.” 19 Ascending...