Louisiana

This is the first American publication of Brodber's eagerly awaited third novel. In Louisiana: A Novel she...
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Author: Erna Brodber
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Louisiana by Brodber, Erna

Louisiana

¥9,450

Louisiana

¥9,450
Author: Erna Brodber
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This is the first American publication of Brodber's eagerly awaited third novel. In Louisiana: A Novel she explores her continuing fascination with the power of the past to live in the present.

Here, Ella Townsend, a young African American anthropologist whose roots are Caribbean, researches Louisiana folklife and discovers not only the world of voodoo and carnival but also the mystical connection of the living and the dead. With her tape recorder she explores the rich heritage of Creole Louisiana, but Mammy, Ella's primary informant, dies during the project. Then from beyond the grave she continues to transmit messages. Although the academically minded Ella is dubious about the authenticity of the medium, gradually, as she confronts her prejudices, the tapes convey enriching mysteries about the past lives of Mammy and her friend Lowly. From this supernatural experience, Ella learns much about herself and her background. Louisiana celebrates the magico-religious culture of hoodoo, conjure, obeah, and myal.

Like Brodber's previous works, Myal: A Novel and Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Louisiana reveals the author's fascinating gift of myth-making. The Louisiana of her title represents two places sharing the same name--the American state and Brodber's native parish in Jamaica. Through this blending of localities, Brodber shows how elements from the African diaspora are kept alive in the Creole culture of the Americas.

Author: Erna Brodber
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 09/01/1997
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.03w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781578060313

About the Author
Erna Brodber was born in Jamaica in 1940. In the 1989 awards of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Myal: A Novel, her second book, was the Caribbean and Canadian Regional Winner.

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