TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brodber,Erna
TI  - Myal: : a novel
SN  - 0901241865
U1  - 823.914 
PY  - 1988///
CY  - London
PB  - New Beacon Books
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Fiction
N2  - The novel opens in the early 20th century with a community gathering aimed at healing Ella, a young woman who returns home after a troubled marriage. Ella, affected by her husband’s appropriation of her culture through a minstrel show, finds herself in a state of despair, stripped of her identity. The Afro-Jamaican religion Myal is invoked to restore her spirit, emphasizing the theme that good can triumph over evil
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