African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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209 p., Explores the limits and prospects of Afro-Caribbean Francophone writers in reshaping or producing action-oriented literature. Part One explores the origins of Afro-Caribbean Francophone literature and what the author terms griotism-- a shared heritage of awareness of biological differences, a sense of the black hero as black messiah and black people as chosen, and the promise of a common racial history.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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187 p., Traces the development of the writer’s Afrocentric vision showing how Marshall’s creative sensibility has evolved—from American to African-American, African-Caribbean, and, finally, Pan-African—and how her distinctive literary style combines Western forms with elements from the African oral tradition.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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259 p., Explores the many aspects of Negritude - both as a concept and as a movement. Provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and ideological background of themes that have preoccupied French-speaking black writers and intellectuals.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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434 p., Establishes that in African, African American and Caribbean literature certain primordial and mythic patterns recur sufficiently to be recognizable as familiar elements in our literary experience. Each chapter identifies and discusses an archetypal image in relationship to a specific work or set of works.
