Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or third sight, is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities, creating an alternate philosophical worldsense linking those of African descent across space and time. maintaining that neglected strains in Negritude discourse provide a crucial philosophical perspective on the...

Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or third sight, is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities, creating an alternate philosophical worldsense linking those of African descent across space and time. maintaining that neglected strains in Negritude discourse provide a crucial philosophical perspective on the...