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256 p., This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations it created, was largely the same in the Caribbean and the American South. Essays written by leading authorities in the field examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, including Louisiana, which among the Southern states has had a quite particular attachment to France and the Francophone world. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics and culture in various forms, notably literature, music and theater.
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187 p., Alas/ Graciela Rojas Sucre-- Y se hicieron amigos/Alicia Castro Argüello-- Amor de mulata/ Argentina Díaz Lozano-- La sombra de la otra/Victoria Urbano -- El negro/Leonor Paz y Paz -- El penador/ Luisita Aguilera Patiño -- Juan Negro / Dina del Carmen Rodas Jerez --Al negro le pagan por bailar /Matilde Elena López --Siervo de siervos/Rima de Vallbona -- ¿Hombre raro o sensitivo? / Catalina Barrios y Barrios -- ¿Y yo?/ Julieta Pinto -- Amor se escribe con G/ Rosa María Britton -- El horno de la vida / Bertalicia Peralta -- La aristócrata y su mulato /Irma Prego -- El talingo / Consuelo Tomás -- Cuando Claudina camina /Consuelo Tomás -- Hay que tener vergüenza/ Moravia Ochoa López -- El secreto de Lola / Moravia Ochoa López -- El veredicto / María Dávila -- Atrapado / Aída Judith González Castrellón -- El mulato/ Marta Susana Prieto; Includes biblipgraphical references ( 175-186)
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268 p., In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives accessible to both scholars and students. Includes Carolyn Cooper's
"Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting," Paula C. Barnes "Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition," and Erna Brodber's "Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols."
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239 p, Containing extracts from all the major Afro-British writers and many early Black American, West African and Caribbean writers who spent time in Britain, this anthology is a sparkling introduction to the rich tradition of Black British writing. A general introduction to the anthology discusses the beginnings of Black literature in Britain during the period of Abolition.
Wellesley, Mass.: Calaloux Publications;Amherst : Distributed by the University of Massachusetts Press.
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First International Conference on the Women Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, April 1988, 382 p, In 1831, three years before England abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, the narrative of Mary Prince was published in London. It was the first account written by a Caribbean slave to be published. Although narratives and stories of Caribbean women have appeared sporadically in subsequent years, it is only since 1970 that a wave of women's writing has innudated the field, thereby changing the horizons of Caribbean literature.
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335 p., An anthology of Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain. It features selections of work by 14 poets, with interviews, photographs and essays. Authors: Louise Bennett (b. 1919) -- Martin Carter (b. 1927) -- Derek Walcott (b. 1930) -- Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) -- Dennis Scott (b. 1939) -- Mervyn Morris (b. 1937) -- James Berry (b. 1924) -- E.A. Markham (b. 1939) -- Olive Senior (b. 1943) -- Lorna Goodison (b. 1947) -- Linton Kwesi Johnson (b. 1952) -- Michael Smith (1954-83) -- Grach Nichols (b. 1950) -- Fred D'Aguiar.
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247 p., Explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations. The essays in this collection reveal the multiple ways that writers of this tradition use their unique positioning as both insiders and outsides to critique U.S. hegemonic discourses while simultaneously interrogating national discourses in their home countries.
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194 p., Includes Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo's "Prejuicios acerca de la independencia haitiana : viento negro, Bosque del Caiman de Carlos Esteban Deive," Silvia Valero's "De 'negros' y 'mulatos' en la literatura cubana contemporánea : Elíseo Altunaga, Marta Rojas y la re-escritura de la historia," and Felix Ayoh'Omidire's "La identidad frente al poder : la asimetría ritual de Yemayá en Africa y América Latina."
