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Healing Cultures

Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora

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Editors:
  1. Margarite Fernández Olmos
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  2. Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
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The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Cultures addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film, cultural and religious studies - bringing together the broad range of beliefs and the spectrum of practices that have sustained the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. La Botánica Cultural: Ars Medica, Ars Poetica

    1. La Botánica Cultural: Ars Medica, Ars Poetica

      • Margarite Fernández Olmos
      Pages 1-15

  4. Artistic Healing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. A Particular Blessing: Storytelling as Healing in the Novels of Julia Alvarez

      • Karen Castellucci Cox
      Pages 133-148

    3. The Film Cure: Responses to Modernity in the Cinemas of the Caribbean

      • Jerry W. Carlson
      Pages 149-164

    4. The End of the Line: Africa, Death, and Freedom in Caribbean Cinema

      • Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz
      Pages 165-177

    5. A Writer/Healer: Literature, A Blueprint for Healing

      • Opal Palmer Adisa
      Pages 179-193

    6. The Great Bonanza of the Antilles

      • Mayra Montero
      Pages 195-201

    7. “My Work Is Obeah”: An Interview with Poet/Painter LeRoy Clarke

      • Margarite Fernández Olmos, Heidi Holder
      Pages 203-209

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 211-236
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About the authors

Margarite Fernández Olmos is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Literature at Vassar College.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Healing Cultures

  • Book Subtitle: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora

  • Editors: Margarite Fernández Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07647-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-21898-0Published: 07 March 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-62068-5Published: 07 March 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-07647-2Published: 27 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 236

  • Topics: Capital Markets, Ethnicity Studies

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