Newson,Adele S. (Author) and Strong-Leek,Linda (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
New York: Lang
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
237 p, Contents: De language reflect dem ethos : some issues with nation language / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Language and identity : the use of different codes in Jamaican poetry / Velma Pollard -- Orality and writing : a revisitation / Merle Collins -- Caribbean writers and Caribbean language : a study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Merle Hodge -- Francophone Caribbean women writers and the diasporic quest for identity : Marie Chauvet's Amour and Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon / Régine Altagrâce Latortue -- Unheard voice : Suzanne Césaire and the construct of a Caribbean identity / Maryse Condé --The silent game / Sybil Seaforth -- The politics of literature : Dominican women and the suffrage movement case study : Delia Weber / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Children in Haitian popular migration as seen by Maryse Condé and Edwidge Danticat / Marie-José N'Zengo-Tayo -- I'll fly away : reflections on life and the death penalty / Marion Bethel -- Of popular balladeers : narrative, gender, and popular culture / Lourdes Vázquez -- Between the milkman and the fax machine : challenges to women writers in the Caribbean / Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso ; translated by Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Frangipani House : Beryl Gilroy's praise song for grandmothers / Australia Tarver -- Anguish and the absurd : "key moments," recreated lives, and the emergence of new figures of Black womanhood in the narrative works of Beryl Gilroy / Joan Anim-Addo -- Women of color at the barricades / Beryl A. Gilroy -- Women against the grain : the pitfalls of theorizing Caribbean women's writing / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Ex/isle : separation, memory, and desire in Caribbean women's writing / Elaine Savory -- Dangerous liaison : western literary values, political engagements, and my own esthetics / Astrid H. Roemer -- The dynamics of power and desire in The pagoda / Patricia Powell -- Voices of the Black feminine corpus in contemporary Brazilian literature / Leda Maria Martins
Conde,Maryse (Author) and Richard Philcox (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
New York, NY: Soho
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
348 p, A tale of revenge set in the Caribbean, in which the hero gets back at a rich man who stole his love by impregnating her after she becomes the man's wife. The result is tragedy, the woman dying in childbirth. By the author of Black Witch of Salem
