African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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226 p., Investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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312 p., Argues for inclusion of more Afro-Hispanic poets in the Caribbean literary canon. This book offers an introductory overview of the literary tradition of Black writing in the Hispanic Caribbean. It also provides a survey of black poets.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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232p., Using a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora in the writings of women from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Mehta expands notions of Caribbean identity.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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184 p., Offers an account of the historical transformations which sugar's representation has undergone. It is suitable for scholars in Slavery, and Caribbean studies. Includes "'Daughters sacrificed to strangers' : interracial desires and intertextual memories in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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150 p., Contents: Postcolonial Caribbean women's fiction : a revisionist discourse
Caribbean women's literature in the post independence era Beka Lamb : a look at "befo' time Crick crack, monkey : "when monkey caan see'e own tail" Angel : "light the way for us!" Traversing thresholds.
