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368 p., A series of extended, illuminated moments in the history of Spanish and British imperialism in the Caribbean: Raleigh's final, shameful expedition to the New World; Francisco Miranda's disastrous invasion of South America in the eighteenth century; the more subtle aggressions of the mid-twentieth-century English writer Foster Morris; the transforming and distorting peregrinations of Blair, the black Trinidadian revolutionary.
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326 p, A novel that deals with the experiences of several black seamen from the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States who are together on a beach in Marseilles. "The main character, Lincoln "Banjo" Agrippa, meets Ray, an intellectual from Haiti, and the pair illustrates the contrast between the rigidity and mechanism of industrial America and the vitality and naturalness of rural life in the islands." --Schavi Mali Ali, "Claude McKay," Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 51.
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147 p, The Caliban-Prospero encounter in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" has evolved as a metaphor for the colonial experience. The present study utilizes the Caliban symbol in examining the influence of colonialism in Caribbean literature, focusing on the works of three major writers from the Caribbean islands: Jean Rhys, of British descent from Dominica; George Lamming, of African origin from Barbados; and Sam Selvon, of mixed Indian and Scottish heritage from Trinidad.
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672 p., This novel captures the “glittering string” of islands and their history; beginning in 1310, through Columbus's arrival, and the “bloody slave revolt” of Haiti to the rise of Castro. It deals with revolution and romance, slavery and superstition.
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187 p, Contents: Introduction: The Third Wave -- Guanahani -- Waves and Echoes -- Olive Senior: Country Air and Juggled Worlds -- Summer Lightning: Customs of the Country -- Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Discerner of Hearts: The Wider World -- Zee Edgell: The Belize Chronicles -- Beka Lamb: A Lesson in History -- In Times Like These: Growing into Home -- Shiva Naipaul: Choreographer of Chaos -- Essays and Stories -- Fireflies: Illuminating the Void -- The Chip-Chip Gatherers: Ropes Across the Abyss -- A Hot Country: Too Much Nothing -- Caryl Phillips: The End of All Exploring -- The Final Passage: The Book of the Parents -- A State of Independence: The Book of the Sons -- Cambridge: The Book of the Ancestors -- Robert Antoni: The Voyage In -- Short Fiction -- Divina Trace: The Tale of Telling.
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228 p, Contents: Canonized hybridities, resistant hybridities: Chutney Soca, carnival, and the politics of nationalism / Shalini Puri -- Soca and social formations: avoiding the romance of culture in Trinidad / Stefano Harney -- Trinidad romance: the invention of Jamaican carnival / Belinda J. Edmondson -- All that is black melts into air: negritud and nation in Puerto Rico / Catherine Den Tandt -- Positive vibration? Capitalist textual hegemony and Bob Marley / Mike Alleyne --"Titid ad pèp la se marasa": Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the new national romance in Haiti / Kevin Meehan -- Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: the politics of identity in postcolonial Martinique / Richard Price and Sally Price -- Beautiful Indians, troublesome negroes, and nice white men: Caribbean romances and the invention of Trinidad / Faith Smith -- Homing instincts: immigrant nostalgia and gender politics in Brown girl, brownstones / Supriya Nair -- Derek Walcott: liminal spaces/substantive histories / Tejumola Olaniyan
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263 p., Analyzing pamphlets, newspapers, estate papers, trial transcripts, and missionary correspondence, this book recovers stories of ordinary Caribbean people, enslaved and free, as they made places for themselves in the empire and the Atlantic world, from the time of sugar tycoon Simon Taylor to the perspective of Samuel Ringgold Ward, African American eyewitness to the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion.
