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• Title: Serving the Spirits: The Pan-Caribbean African-Derived Religion in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring (Critical Essay)
• Author : Journal of Caribbean Literatures
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 92 KB

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Set in the Caribbean-Canadian community of Toronto, Canada, Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring reflects the unique ethnic and national identities of the Caribbean diaspora. Both literary scholars and Hopkinson herself note the ways in which Hopkinson uses language to identify both the different national distinctions within the Caribbean immigrant community and the relationship that the Caribbean community has to the larger Canadian society. However, it is through her description of "serving the spirits" that Brown Girl describes a pan-Caribbean identity within the Caribbean diaspora of Toronto. In the concept of "serving the spirits," Hopkinson draws together various African-derived religious traditions found throughout the Caribbean into one religious practice. By dissolving the boundaries in religious practices, "serving the spirits" functions as the basis for a unique pan-Caribbean identity for the characters of Brown Girl. Brown Girl in the Ring is set in the future decaying inner city left when Toronto's economic base collapses. The city center is inhabited only by the formerly homeless and poor, now squatters, and is ruled by drug lord Rudy and his posse. The protagonist, a young Caribbean-Canadian female named Ti-Jeanne, lives with her grandmother, who runs a business in herbal medicine that has become vital to the disenfranchised of the Burn. Ti-Jeanne's grandmother, Mami Gros-Jeanne, is a faithful follower of the spirits. Ti-Jeanne, on the other hand, believes that the herbal medicine and African-derived spirituality of her grandmother should have no role in the lives of sane and practical people. Jeanne must finally face her spiritual heritage or risk her life and family. In the climactic scene of the book, Ti-Jeanne summons the powerful Yoruba ori?a by name connecting the earthly world with the spiritual world. Then she is able to end the evil that plagues the inner city, and begin the work of recovery and healing.

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