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2. Defining Jamaican fiction: marronage and the discourse of survival
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lalla,Barbara (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 224 p., Marronage - the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories - had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World. As fictional personae the maroons continue to weave in and out of oral and literary tales as central and ancient characters of Jamaica's heritage. Identifies the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature and focuses on its essential themes and strategies of discourse for conveying these themes.
3. Island bodies : transgressive sexualities in the Caribbean imagination
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- King,Rosamond S. author (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 261 p., Examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. Analyzing the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture. Demonstrates how many individuals contest traditional roles by maneuvering within and/or trying to change their society's binary gender systems. These transgressions have come to better represent Caribbean culture than the "official" representations perpetuated by governmental elites and often codified into laws that reinforce patriarchal, heterosexual stereotypes.
4. La isla que se repite: el Caribe y la perspectiva posmoderna
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Benitez-Rojo,Antonio (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Published:
- [Hanover N.H. U.S.A.]: Ediciones del Norte
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 350 p., In this second edition of "The Repeating Island," Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benitez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benitez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean--the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics--there emerges an "island" of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benitez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillen, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodriguez Julia.
5. Slavery, empathy, and pornography
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wood,Marcus (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Oxford New York: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 467 p, Includes bibliographical references ( [428]-456) and index.
6. The hills were joyful together
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mais,Roger (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Leeds: Peepal Tree
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1953., 272 p., A powerful reflection on colonial Jamaica and the condition of the urban poor, told through the voices and stories of several boldly drawn characters.