African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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An edited collection of essays mainly from the 10th anniversary meeting of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, which was held in 2006., 434 p.
