Caribbean Oral Tradition

Hanétha Vété-Congolo is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College, Maine, USA. She is affiliated to the Africana Studies Program, the Latin American Studies Program and the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Program of her institution. Situated in the Africana Critical Theory field, her scholarship focuses principally on Caribbean and African ideas, philosophy, literature and orality. Her articles are published in refereed journals and anthologies such as The CLR. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas and Ethiopiques. Revue négro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie.

• Introduction Hanétha Vété-Congolo.- Foreword Olufemi Vaughan.- Preface Connected by Narratives: Thinking as Creation and Resistance Jean Godefroy Bidima.- Caribbean Interorality: A Brief Introduction Hanétha Vété-Congolo.- Interorality and Caribbean Philosophy Paget Henry.-.Crossing Spirits, Negotiating Cultures: Transmigration, Transculturation, and Interorality in Cuban Espiritismo Solimar Otero.- Orality and the Slave Sublime John Drabinski.- Utterance, Against Orality, Beyond Textuality Michael Birenbaum.- Boukman in Books: Tracing a Legendary Genealogy Paul Miller.- Afterword Gordon Lewis.