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229 p, Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon--as represented by C. L. R. James and V. S. Naipaul, among others--and contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States.
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131 p, Contents: Making West Indian literature -- Kamau Brathwaite -- Locating self : Dennis Scott interviewed -- Dennis Scott : a remembrance -- Interrogating irony : Mervyn Morris interviewed -- The all Jamaica library -- Jane's career and Susan Proudleigh -- Voices under the window -- Validating lives : Trevor Rhone interviewed -- Miss Lou, some heirs and successors -- In search of justice : Linton Kwesi Johnson interviewed -- Building awareness : Mikey Smith interviewed -- Orator Baugh -- Sounds and sense : West Indian poetry -- It was the singing -- Sir Vidia and the prize.
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402 p, Exploration of the musical heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean, arranged by region, focusing on the major countries/regions (Mexico, Brazil, Peru, etc. in Latin America and Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, Haiti, etc. in the Caribbean). In each chapter the author gives a complete history of the region’s music, ranging from classical and classical-influenced styles to folk and traditional music to today’s popular music.
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260 p, Contents: "Under the hog plum tree": literary claims for citizenship in nineteenth-century Trinidad -- The accidental modernist : Thomas MacDermot and Jamaican literature -- Herbert's career : H.G. de Lisser and the business of national literature -- The new primitivism : gender and nation in McKay's internationalism -- The realpolitik of yard fiction : Trinidad's Beacon group -- The pitfalls of feminist nationalism and the career of Una Marson -- "Fishy waters" : Jean Rhys and West Indian writing before 1940.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (master's)--Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da Faculdade de Ciências e Letras da Universidade Estadual Paulista, 1998., 204 p.