African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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271 p., Investigates the impact of American literature and culture upon the Anglophone Caribbean during and following the Second World War. Traditional inquiries involving this era usually render the Caribbean in colonial and/or post-colonial contexts; this dissertation instead looks to understand alternative variables, especially the widespread affiliations with U.S. culture made by emergent Caribbean writers from the so-called “Windrush Generation” that were exposed to American soldiers serving overseas. Contents: C.L.R. James -- V.S. Naipaul -- Sylvia Wynter -- George Lamming.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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72 p., Examines the recurrence of the image of sugarcane in Caribbean literature and traces a timeline of oppressive discourse. The image of the cane field represents a tension between silencing voice and identity independent of European nation-building ideologies. There is a history of silencing associated with sugarcane, even as Caribbean authors seek a potential to use this history to create a voice. While the authors examined employ the image of the cane field to create a voice outside of the dominant discourse, the voice of the Caribbean is nonetheless restricted.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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246 p., "This thesis, situated between literature, history and memory studies participates in the modern recovery of the long-obscured relations between Scotland and the Caribbean. I develop the suggestion that the Caribbean represents a forgotten 'lieu de mémoire' where Scotland might fruitfully 'displace' itself. Thus it examines texts from the Enlightenment to Romantic eras in their historical context and draws out their implications for modern national, multicultural, postcolonial concerns." --The Author
Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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411 p., "Even though accepted definitions of the Caribbean Creole focus on its status as native to the region, it is just as emphatically tied to somewhere else, giving it a vexed status. Through a comparative analysis of fictional, sociological, historical and psychological portraits of the Caribbean Creole, I argue that the Creole's working definition is equally indebted to casting it as a cultural outsider in local contexts in and around the Caribbean." --The Author
