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2. Cambridge: a novel
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Phillips,Caryl (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- New York: Knopf Distributed by Random House
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 183 p.
3. I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Conde,Maryse (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 277 p., This wild and entertaining novel, winner of the 1986 Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme, expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Conde brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary 'Nanny of the maroons, "' who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her. Rich with postmodern irony, the novel even includes an encounter with Hester Prawn of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter.
4. Myth and History in Caribbean Fiction: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Webb,Barbara J. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 185 p, Contents: Pt. 1. Myth as a historical mode : Lo real maravilloso americano -- Lo real maravilloso in Caribbean fiction -- The folk imagination and history : El reino de este mundo, The secret ladder, and Le quatrième siècle -- Pt. 2. The problematic quest for origins -- The myth of El Dorado : Los pasos perdidos and Palace of the peacock -- Pt. 3. Myth and history : the dialectics of culture -- History as mythic discourse : El siglo de las luces, Tumatumari, and La case du commandeur -- The poetics of identity and difference : Black Marsden and Concierto barroco
5. The Chosen place, the timeless people
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Marshall,Paule (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- New York: Vintage Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 472 p, The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants, black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. The advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, and the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve dramatize the vicissitudes of power.
6. Tree of life
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Conde,Maryse (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- New York: Ballantine Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 371 p., The story of a Caribbean family whose history is as much their own as it is their native island's. When the narrator's forebear, Albert Louis, decides to go to Panama to make his fortune building the canal rather than stay at home cutting sugar like all his fellow blacks, he begins the ascendancy of the Louis family--a family that over the years will be divided by color (not just black and white but all the shades in between), money, and politics. In Panama, Albert finds money but not a fortune, encounters racial prejudice, learns about Marcus Garvey, and marries a Jamaican who dies giving birth to son Bert. Back home in Guadeloupe, the embittered father prospers in business but is disliked for his meanness and surly disposition. A second marriage follows, and the narrator's grandfather, the ugly but hard-working Jacob, is born. Births and deaths occur at a clip; the dead advise the living in dreams; and characters travel to New York, where more is learned of Garvey and black politics, and to France, where Bert, disowned because of his marriage to a white woman, commits suicide. Then on to Bert's niece, Jacob's daughter, pampered and indulged Th’cla, who moves to France pregnant with the narrator, whom she leaves with a white family. Abandoned by her black lover, Th’cla marries a white doctor, takes a side trip to New York, where she has an affair with a Malcolm X follower; goes to Jamaica, this time with daughter and new lover in tow; and then finally returns to her white husband in Paris, leaving daughter with grandfather and the obligation to tell ``the story of very ordinary people who in their own way had nonetheless made blood flow.'' Vivid writing, and certainly wide-ranging, though sometimes the fast pace leads to skimping on the plot. Still, a very readable story of an unfamiliar territory.
7. Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gikandi,Simon (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 260 p, Contents: Caribbean modernist discourse : writing, exile, and tradition -- From exile to nationalism : the early novels of George Lamming -- Beyond the Kala-pani : the Trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon -- Deformation of modernism : the allegory of history in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces -- Modernism and the masks of history : the novels of Paule Marshall -- Writing after colonialism : Crick crack, Monkey and Beka lamb -- Narration at the postcolonial moment : history and representation in Abeng