ABSTRACT

‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and students interested in tracing African heritage identities throughout the African Diaspora through close examination of a variety of discourses directly connected to expressive elements of cultural production and religious rituals.

part I|73 pages

Ashe' Conceptual Frame

chapter 1|11 pages

Like Echoes Across the Continuum

Wangechi Mutu's New Horizons in Afro-Cosmology

chapter 2|9 pages

“Salt Peanuts”

Sound and Sense in African/American Oral/Musical Creativity *

chapter 3|36 pages

Àṣẹ

The Empowered Word Must Come to Pass

chapter 4|15 pages

Tey

Seeing as a Ritual for a Good Death

part II|41 pages

Ashe' Cultural Frame

chapter 5|8 pages

Eric Waters

Capturing the Culture

chapter 6|17 pages

Dub in the Front Room

Migrant Aesthetics of the Sacred and the Secular

chapter 8|9 pages

I Will Not Be Erased!

part III|69 pages

Ashe' and Arts Disciplines

chapter 9|21 pages

Aesthetics of Beauty

In an Africana Mode

chapter 10|19 pages

“Undone”Michael

Bottle Trees, Charms, and Flashing Spirits 1

chapter 12|21 pages

Risa Thomas

A “Cultural Flashpoint” Representative of the Dramatic Journey of Two Trains Running