African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Special issue of the African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica Review., 133 p, A collection of case studies focused on the formation of mostly independent communities in the region. All of the communities under consideration emerged in the immediate post-emancipation period. The condition, historical and cultural, which they have in common is the rise and fall of the West Indian plantation system.
Wintersteen,Benjamin (Author) and Browne,Katherine E. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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136 p., Examines the religious, mythological and performance elements of the Afro-Caribbean street festival. Using the theories of performance, political economy and symbolic analysis, this work shows how elements of African, European and South American cultures interact to produce a unique understanding of the colonial and post-colonial experience.
