Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
326 p., Shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
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. Thus, through sustained analyses of historical, biomedical and sociocultural currents in the context of eight Francophone novels from 1968 to 2003, the book advances a new theory of critical conditions. These critical conditions represent the conjunction of bodily, psychic, and textual states that defy conventional definitions of health and well-being.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
196 p., Focuses on Francophone women writers who offer striking commentaries on the experience of illness and/or disability and its attendant discourses: Haitian writer Marie Chauvet; Guadeloupian-Senegalese writer Myriam Warner-Vieyra; Guadeloupian writer Maryse Condé; Senegalese writers Ken Bugul, Fama Diagne Sène, and Fatou Diome; and Swiss-Gabonese writer Bessora.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
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
Notes:
388 p, Includes Richard S. Dunn's "Sugar production and slave women in Jamaica"; -- David P. Geggus' "Sugar and coffee cultivation in Saint Domingue and the shaping of the slave labor force"; David Barry Gaspar's "Sugar cultivation and slave life in Antigua before 1800"; Michel-Rolph Trouillot's "Coffee planters and coffee slaves in the Antilles: the impact of a secondary crop"; Woodville K. Marshall's "Provision ground and plantation labor in four windward islands: competition for resources during slavery"; and Dale Tomich's "Une petite guinée: provision ground and plantation in Martinique, 1830-1848"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
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.
Gutiérrez de Velasco,Luzelena (Author), Prado,Gloria (Author), and Domenella,Ana Rosa (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
México, D.F. ; UAM-Iztapalapa: Colegio de México, Iztapalapa
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
407 p, Aunque parezca un clisé, los pesares y las alegrías definen la vida de los seres humanos. Este volumen reúne deiversas lecturas sobre escritoras latinoamericanas -entre otras cosas, Clarice Lispector, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Victoria Ocampo, Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi- a partir de esos dos ejes temáticos. Los acercamientos se sustentan en propuestas metodólogicas y enfoques teóricos de actualidad. www.libreria.mora.edu.mx; Project undertaken by the Taller de Teoría y Crítica Literaria "Diana Morán"-Coyoacán
