Mar 19, 2014
Africans uprooted from ancestral soil, stripped of material culture and victimized by brutal contact with various European nations were compelled not only to maintain their cultural heritage at a ‘meta’ (as opposed to a material) level, but also apprehended the operative metaphysics of various alien cultures.
Houston A. Baker, Jr., “There Is No More Beautiful Way: Theory and the Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing”