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    1. "We are the planet": incipient solidarities in Russell Banks's Continental Drift

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Entin,Joseph (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 2012
    Published:
    Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    WorkingUSA
    Journal Title Details:
    15(1) : 51-66
    Notes:
    Explores the way writers address the formation and fate of the contemporary American working class in an age of neoliberal globalization. Specifically, the essay examines Russell Banks's 1985 novel Continental Drift, which interweaves the stories of two characters who pull up stakes and head to Florida in search of a better life: an oil furnace repair man from New Hampshire and a young, single mother from Haiti.

    4. <Beyond the Limbo Silence>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hathaway,Heather (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 2000
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    34(3) : 552-553
    Notes:
    Hathaway describes the characters and plot of this novel, which is set in the Civil Rights era and focuses on the experiences of a Trinidadian immigrant who has come to the U. S. on a scholarship to a small, Catholic college in the Midwest

    10. At the Full and Change of CanLit: An Interview with Dionne Brand

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Brand,Dionne (Author), Walcott,Rinaldo (Interviewer), and Sanders,Leslie (Interviewer)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme
    Journal Title Details:
    20(2) : 22-26
    Notes:
    In April 1999, Dionne Brand, Leslie Sanders, and Rinaldo Walcott sat down to have a conversation about Brand's second novel At The Full and Change of the Moon. The interview took place over a promised riposte, and was a conversation among friends. The novel concerns itself with the contemporary lives of the descendents of Marie Ursule a slave who commits a rebellious and horrific act of mass poisoning on a plantation but saves her daughter Bolla.