Gaspar,David Barry (Author) and Geggus,David P. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
262 p, examines several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slave labor, organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantation colonies were particularly vulnerable to the message of the French Revolution, which proved all the more potent because it coincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement in the Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions of resistance among the region's slaves, free coloreds, and white colonists.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
276 p, The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set against this "day for the hunter" has been a "day for the prey," a history of resistance, and sometimes of triumph. With keen cultural and historical awareness, Gage Averill shows that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been one of the most highly charged instruments in this struggle—one in which power, politics, and resistance are inextricably fused.
Explores such diverse genres as Haitian jazz, troubadour traditions, Vodou-jazz, konpa, mini-djaz, new generation, and roots music. He examines the complex interaction of music with power in contexts such as honorific rituals, sponsored street celebrations, Carnival, and social movements that span the political spectrum.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
353 p, Contents: The unity of Caribbean literature -- Toward a Caribbean poetics -- Kamau Brathwaite and the Caribbean word -- Stages of the sacred in René Depestre -- Pedro Mir and the historical imagination -- Conclusion: the Caribbean in a decentralized literary order.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
310 p, A revolt by black slaves in 1802 Dominica, a British island in the West Indies. As he awaits trial, Jack, the novel's hero, reflects on his life as a slave in Africa and the Caribbean
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Desirada was awarded the prestigious Prix Carbet de la Caraibe in 1998 given for the best book by a Caribbean author, 280 p, Desirada is the story of Marie-Noelle and her quest to understand the mother who abandoned her, and discover the identity of her father, despite the opposing stories from her mother and her grandmother. It is also the story of generations of island women and the pursuit of a meaningful life despite a tainted personal history.
