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The alternative names allow the reader to recognize Elegba, who he or she will have met in the poetry of Kamau Brathwaite, or in the prose of Paul Marshall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771#t=976.2,994.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771/transcript/90111/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVelma Pollard:\u003c/strong\u003e In the title poem of Masks, the second book of Brathwaite's first trilogy, the tribes greet Elegba as they set out fearfully for the unknown journey across the Middle Passage. God of the pathway, god of the tree, god of all parting, we greet you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771#t=994.2,1014.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771/transcript/90111/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVelma Pollard:\u003c/strong\u003e In Wake, a farewell for the dead in islands, the third book of that trilogy, the cry is for Elegba to open the door just before the spirit leaves the body, before it says, Amen to the world of eyes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771#t=1015.2,1029.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771/transcript/90111/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVelma Pollard:\u003c/strong\u003e The very same words are heard at the end of the poem Negus, in that same book, where the appeal is for him to open the door, not to the world after death, but to better lives on earth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771#t=1030.2,1042.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771/transcript/90111/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVelma Pollard:\u003c/strong\u003e Here the amber and confused new world of black appeals to Elegba to open the door to possibilities in a situation where so much has been left undone, where futures need to be fashioned.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771#t=1043.2,1055.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771/transcript/90111/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVelma Pollard:\u003c/strong\u003e Atibon, Elegba, Atibon, Elegba, ouvrez-moi, ouvrez-moi, open the door for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771#t=1056.2,1066.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771/transcript/90111/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVelma Pollard:\u003c/strong\u003e That he is syncretized with St. Anthony points to the curious relationship between the religions of Europe and of Africa in the Cuban environment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771#t=1068.2,1078.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771/transcript/90111/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVelma Pollard:\u003c/strong\u003e Elegba also finds a place in Paul Marshall's novel, Praise Song for the Widow, where he appears in the persona of an old man, proprietor of a small peasant restaurant on a Caribbean island,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771#t=1079.2,1091.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771/transcript/90111/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVelma Pollard:\u003c/strong\u003e the inspiration for a Black American woman to begin the physical and psychological journey that would change her life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771#t=1092.2,1098.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302771/transcript/90111/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVelma Pollard:\u003c/strong\u003e A stoop-shouldered old man with one leg shorter than the other. 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Those of us here who are old enough to remember","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302773#t=1446.86,1452.86"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302773/transcript/92702/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAudience:\u003c/strong\u003e how we did Black Studies on campuses when nobody wanted to teach classes, no classes","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302773#t=1452.86,1458.86"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2297/collection_resources/166358/file/302773/transcript/92702/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAudience:\u003c/strong\u003e were being taught. 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