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2. Arms akimbo: Africana women in contemporary literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Liddell,Janice (Editor) and Kemp, Yakini Belinda
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 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."
3. Pictures and mirrors: race and ethnicity in Brazil and the United States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vieira,Vinícius Guilherme Rodrigues (Editor) and Johnson,Jacquelyn (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Sao Paulo: FEAUSP
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 406 p., Includes Luciana da Cruz Brito's "South Atlantic "freedom" : the American media's view of Brazil's abolition of slavery process," Flávio Thales Ribeiro Francisco's "Black Aurora : Afro-Paulistas and Afro-Americans in modernity," Jacquelyn Johnson's "Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic : an incomplete paradigm," Túlio Custódio's "Roads and paths : the intellectual trajectory of Abdias do Nascimento during his exile in the United States (1968-1981)," Sarah Birdwell's "Double discrimination in a racial democracy : struggles of Black feminists in Brazil," Jackeline Romio's "The murder of black women in the city of São Paulo in 1998," Sarah Birdwell's "Negation and misrepresentation : "Black TV" in the United States and Brazil," etc.
4. Publishing blackness : textual constructions of race since 1850
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hutchinson,George (Editor) and Young,John K. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 236 p., Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production interfaces with the processes of publication and distribution in particularly charged ways. This collection ranges across the history of African American literature, and the authors have much to contribute on such issues as editorial and archival preservation, canonization, and the "packaging" and repackaging of black-authored texts. Includes "More than McKay and Guillén: The Caribbean in Hughes and Bontemps's The Poetry of the Negro (1949)."
5. Slavery, colonialism, and racism
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ajayi,J. F. Ade (Editor) and Mintz,Sidney W. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- Spring, 1974
- Published:
- Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Daedalus
- Journal Title Details:
- 103 (no. 2)
- Notes:
- Special issue of the journal Daedalus., 205 p., Twelve noted international scholars examine selected significant aspects of the historical and contemporary experience of black peoples in the Americas and Africa.
6. The meaning of freedom: economics, politics, and culture after slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Drescher,Seymour (Editor) and McGlynn,Frank (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- "Outcome of an international conference ... held at the University of Pittsburgh ... 25-27 August 1988", 333 p., This study considers the aftermath of slavery, focusing on Caribbean societies and the southern United States and addressing such questions as: what was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? And did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in plantation societies?
7. Zora in Florida
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Glassman,Steve (Editor) and Seidel,Kathryn Lee (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 197 p, Zora in Florida focuses on the place that nurtured and inspired her work, the frontier wilderness of central Florida and the all-black town of Eatonville. Two chapters are devoted to her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, set almost entirely in Florida. Includes Barbara Speisman's "Voodoo as symbol in Jonah's gourd vine." Also treats Hurston's lesser-known works such as Tell My Horse, her first-person account of fieldwork in Haiti.