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2. The daughter's return: African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rody,Caroline (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- New York: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- x
- Notes:
- 267 p
3. Vichy in the tropics: Pétain’s national revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-1944
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jennings,Eric Thomas (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Stanford, California: Stanford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 311 p, Product Description This book examines the role of the Vichy regime in bringing about profound changes in the French colonial empire after World War II. In the war’s aftermath, the French colonial system began to break down. Indochina erupted into war in 1945 and Madagascar in 1947, while Guadeloupe chose an opposite course, becoming territorially part of France in 1946. The book traces the introduction of an integralist ideology of “National Revolution” to the French colonial realm, shedding new light on the nature of the Vichy regime, on the diversity of French colonialism, and on the beginnings of decolonization. Encompassing three very different regions and cultures, the study reveals both a unity in Vichy’s self-reproduction overseas and a diversity of forms which this ideological cloning assumed. World War II is often presented as an agent of change in the French colonial empire only insofar as it engendered a loss of prestige for France as colonizer. The author argues that Marshal Philippe Pétain’s Vichy regime contributed to decolonization in a much more substantial way, by ushering in an ideology based on a new, harsher brand of colonialism that both directly and indirectly fueled indigenous nationalism. The author also rejects the popular notion that Nazi pressure lurked behind the Vichy government’s colonial actions, and that the regime lacked any real agency in colonial affairs. He shows that, far from allowing the Germans to run French colonies from behind the scenes, Vichy leaders vigorously promoted their own undiluted form of ultra-conservative ideology throughout the French empire. They delivered to the colonies an authoritarianism that not only elicited fierce opposition but sowed the seeds of nationalist resurgence among indigenous cultures. Ironically, the regime awoke long-dormant nationalist sentiments by introducing to the empire Pétain’s cherished themes of authenticity, tradition, folklore, and völkism. (Amazon) ;
4. A Map to the Door of No Return
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Brand,Dionne (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Toronto, Canada: Doubleday
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 288 p, Explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. Draws on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature. The title, A Map to the Door of No Return, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history -- the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities.
5. Perishable Theatre's 9th Annual Women's Playwriting Festival
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- DeGannes,Nehassaiu (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Providence R.I.: Perishable Theatre
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 60 p., The frangipani door / by Nehassaiu deGannes -- Mothergun / by Christine Evans -- Extraordinaire / by Janet Kenney.
6. The Caribbean novel in English: an introduction
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Booker,M. Keith (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 205 p, Contents; Introduction: Historical survey of the Caribbean novel in English -- George Lamming : In the castle of my skin (Barbados, 1953) -- Paule Marshall : The chosen place, the timeless people (Barbados/U.S., 1969) -- Merle Hodge : Crick crack, monkey (Trinidad, 1970) -- Sam Selvon : Moses ascending (Trinidad, 1975) -- Michael Thelwell : The harder they come (Jamaica, 1980) -- Zee Edgell : Beka Lamb (Belize, 1982) -- Earl Lovelace : The wine of astonishment (Trinidad, 1982) -- Michelle Cliff : Abeng (Jamaica, 1984) -- C.L.R. James : Minty Alley (Trinidad, 1936) -- V.S. Reid : New day (Jamaica, 1949) -- Ralph de Boissière : Crown jewel (Trinidad, 1952) -- Roger Mais : The hills were joyful together (Jamaica, 1953) -- V.S. Naipaul : Miguel Street (Trinidad, 1959) -- Wilson Harris : The palace of the peacock (Guyana, 1960) -- Orlando Patterson : The children of Sisyphus (Jamaica, 1964) -- Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea (Dominica, 1966) -- Merle Collins : Angel (Grenada, 1987) -- Earl Lovelace : Salt (Trinidad, 1996); Includes bibliographical references ( [185]-199) and index.
7. Poétique baroque de la Caraïbe
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chancé,Dominique (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Paris: Karthala
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 261 p, "Énorme, anormal, difforme ou sinueux, le thème baroque se développe au mépris des limites, cadres de l'image, marges de la page, frontières des genres ou des tonalités. N'y aurait-il pas, dès lors, une affinité entre le baroque et la mise en question de la loi? Entre une liberté merveilleuse et l'angoisse du vide, le baroque mène ainsi la folle sarabande de l'écriture et de la musique. L'écrivain n'est-il pas à l'image de ses personnages livre des pouvoirs de l'imaginaire, se livrant à la transgression joyeuse, et cependant inquiet de découvrir une 'loi symbolique', ou une 'loi d'expression', dans le langage d'Édouard Glissant" (Amazon);
8. Tales from the heart: true stories from my childhood
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Conde,Maryse (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- New York: Soho
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 177 p, Maryse Cond vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents' feelings of alienation; her first crush; a falling out with her best friend; the death of her beloved grandmother; her first encounter with racism; Translated from the French by Richard Philcox.