Background
Griffith, Paul Anderson was born on October 11, 1952 in Hillaby, St. Andrew, Barbados. Son of Levis Whitstanley Greaves and Doris Adorothy Griffith.
( Focusing on orally transmitted cultural forms in the Ca...)
Focusing on orally transmitted cultural forms in the Caribbean, this book reaffirms the importance of myth and symbol in folk consciousness as a mode of imaginative conceptualization. Paul A. Griffith cross-references Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott’s postcolonial debates with issues at seminal sites where Caribbean imaginary insurgencies took root. This book demonstrates the ways residually oral forms distilled history, society, and culture to cleverly resist aggressions authored through colonialist presumptions. In an analysis of the archetypal patterns in the oral tradition—both literary and nonliterary, this impressive book gives insight into the way in which people think about the world and represent themselves in it.
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literature and language professor
Griffith, Paul Anderson was born on October 11, 1952 in Hillaby, St. Andrew, Barbados. Son of Levis Whitstanley Greaves and Doris Adorothy Griffith.
Bachelor in English, University Wisconsin, St. Michael, Barbados, 1978. Master of Philosophy in English, University Wisconsin, St. Michael, Barbados, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy in English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1995.
English teacher Foundation Secondary School, Oistins, Barbados, 1978—1988. Associate professor English Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, 1997—2009.
( Focusing on orally transmitted cultural forms in the Ca...)
Member of College Language Association.
Married Su Zhang, April 2, 1962.