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    1. Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Mackey,Nathaniel (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1993
    Published:
    Cambridge [England] New York NY USA: Cambridge University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    313 p, "Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric--black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects of their work advance a critique of the assumptions underlying conventional perceptions and practice." (Google);

    2. Freedom on the border: the Seminole Maroons in Florida: the Indian territory--Coahuila and Texas

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Mulroy,Kevin (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1993
    Published:
    Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    246 p., Under the brilliant leadership of the charismatic John Horse, a band of black runaways, in alliance with Seminole Indians under Wild Cat, migrated from the Indian Territory to northern Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century to escape from slavery. These maroons subsequently provided soldiers for Mexico's frontier defense and later served the United States Army as the renowned Seminole Negro Indian Scouts. This is the story of the maroons' ethnogenesis in Florida, their removal to the West, their role in the Texas Indian Wars, and the fate of their long quest for freedom and self-determination along both sides of the Rio Grande. Their tale is a rich and colorful one, and one of epic proportions, stretching from the swamps of the Southeast to the desert Southwest. The maroons' history of African origins, plantation slavery, European and Indian associations, Florida wars, and forced removal culminated in a Mexican borderlands mosaic incorporating slave hunters, corrupt Indian agents, Texas filibusters, Mexican revolutionaries, French invaders, Apache and Comanche raiders, frontier outlaws and lawmen, and Buffalo Soldiers.