African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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187 p, Contents: Introduction: The Third Wave -- Guanahani -- Waves and Echoes -- Olive Senior: Country Air and Juggled Worlds -- Summer Lightning: Customs of the Country -- Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Discerner of Hearts: The Wider World -- Zee Edgell: The Belize Chronicles -- Beka Lamb: A Lesson in History -- In Times Like These: Growing into Home -- Shiva Naipaul: Choreographer of Chaos -- Essays and Stories -- Fireflies: Illuminating the Void -- The Chip-Chip Gatherers: Ropes Across the Abyss -- A Hot Country: Too Much Nothing -- Caryl Phillips: The End of All Exploring -- The Final Passage: The Book of the Parents -- A State of Independence: The Book of the Sons -- Cambridge: The Book of the Ancestors -- Robert Antoni: The Voyage In -- Short Fiction -- Divina Trace: The Tale of Telling.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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261 p, Contents: Map of the Caribbean -- Preface -- Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry -- West Indian poetry and its audience -- The Caribbean neighbourhood -- Overview of West Indian literary histories -- The relation to 'Europe' -- The relation to 'Africa' -- The relation to 'America' -- Guide to further reading.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Reflects the traumatic history of imperialism and its political, economic, and cultural manifestations ranging from the Negritude literary movement to post-independence novelists. There is also a political engagement aroused by independence and early statehood
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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179 p, Catherine Le Pelletier discovered in 1993 a show literary that each month new books are presented. This book is the discovery of literature in black, and it brings together the main discussion of this issues.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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256 p., This book explores the common links and differences between the works of two modern Caribbean poets, Kamau Braithwaite and Dereck Walcott. The study focuses on the engagement of the two with the mythology of the Caribbean's African experience, defining each poet's contribution to the development of modern Caribbean poetics.
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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328 p, Content: The scope and limits of West Indian historiography -- The novel as history: Edgar Mittelholzer and V.S. Reid -- History as loss: determinism as vision and form in V.S. Naipaul -- Lamming and the mythic imagination: meaning and dimensions of freedom -- Beyond realism: Wilson Harris and the immateriality of freedom -- Transcending linear time: history and style in Derek Walcott's poetry -- From myth to dialectic: history in Derek Walcott's drama -- Edward Brathwaite and submerged history: the aesthetics of renaissance -- Configurations of history in the writing of West Indian women -- Africa in the historical imagination of the West Indian writer.
