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Notes:
353 p, Contents: The unity of Caribbean literature -- Toward a Caribbean poetics -- Kamau Brathwaite and the Caribbean word -- Stages of the sacred in René Depestre -- Pedro Mir and the historical imagination -- Conclusion: the Caribbean in a decentralized literary order.
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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
Glaser,Marlies (Author) and Pausch,Marion (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Amsterdam: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
The volume consists of a bilingual introduction of “parallelism of literary and cultural preoccupations” between Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literatures. As well as English-and French-language articles on Caribbean poetry, novels, and theater. Also, includes interviews with six Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean authors and book reviews.;
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325 p, "This is the first comprehensive study of a powerful and distinctive body of poetry that has emerged in the West Indies over the last fifteen years." (Publisher)
San Cristóbal, Edo. Táchira, Venezuela: Universidad de los Andes, Núcleo Universitario del Táchira
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
1
Notes:
Contexto's focus is on literature from the most diverse perspectives criticism, literary phenomenon in its widest dimension aesthetic and humanistic. Serial Publication: Periodical: Semiannual (twice a year)
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Journal Title Details:
xi
Notes:
290 p, Introduction. Conceptualizing creoleness : French Caribbean "postcolonial" discourse. -- La Lézarde : Alienation and the poetics of Antillanité. -- En attendant le bonheur : Creole conjunctions and cultural survival. -- LIsole Soleil/Soufrières : textual creolization and cultural identity. -- LAutre qui danse : the modalities and multiplicities of Métissage. -- Solibo magnifique : carnival, opposition, and the narration of the Caribbean maroon. -- Conclusion. Creolizing the colonial encounter.
