African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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196 p., Argues that cultural and literary expressions of illness, suffering, and subjectivity in the postcolonial context are always in dialogue with seemingly external discourses and practices of health.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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500 p, Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary critics. The collection is unique in its combination of genres, including poetry, short stories, essays, excerpts from novels and personal narratives, many of which are being translated into English for the first time. They address issues of ethnicity, sexuality, social class and self-representation and in so doing shape a revolutionary discourse that questions and subverts historical assumptions and literary conventions.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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107 p., Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, "Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil "represents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society.
Cambridge [England] New York NY USA: Cambridge University Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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);
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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2 vols (962 p)., Accessible to students and general readers, this encyclopedia overviews the lives and works of Caribbean authors. Because Caribbean literature is so much a reflection of regional concerns, the encyclopedia gives special attention to the political, cultural, and historical contexts in which Caribbean authors have lived and worked.
Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Linda M. (Author), González Hernández,Miriam Mercedes (Author), and Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Miriam M.González Hernández (Editor)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
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Bronx, NY: Latino Press, Latin American Writers Institute, Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, CUNY
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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253 p, International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers (7th : 2000 : Mayagüez, P.R.); Conference held Apr. 3-7, 2000, in Mayagüez and Ponce, R.
