Format: Dissertation/Thesis / Publication Year: 2014 / Subject Term: Literature

Start Over Format Dissertation/Thesis Publication Year 2014 Subject Term Literature

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Souza Hogan,Maria Leda (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2014
Published:: Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 243 p., Analyzes three novels by contemporary female Caribbean and Latin American Afro-descendent writers of the diaspora: Peruvian Lucía Charún-Illescas' Malambo (2001), Brazilian Ana Maria Gonçalves' Um defeito de cor (2006), and Puerto Rican Mayra Santos-Febres' Fe en disfraz (2009). In these texts, the old and the new intermingle in the space of the narrative. The colonial past is reexamined and reconstructed out of the need to understand its reminiscences into the present and the necessity to transform the future.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Reyes,Michael Castro (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2014
Published:: New York: Cornell University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 367 p., Examines the lasting consequences of the anticolonial, antislavery discourses of the Haitian Revolution on the way in which postcolonial Haitians understood the narrative structure of their national history from Independence (1804) to the end of the American Occupation of Haiti (1934). In this study Haitian intuitions of historical time are apprehended through an analysis of nineteenth and early twentieth century Haitian literary and historical works. These texts are scrutinized with respect to (a) formal narrative features such as truncation, ellipsis, elision, prolepsis and analepsis which reveal an implicit understanding of the disposition of the metahistorical categories of "past," "present," and "future" and (b) the analysis of the explicit reflections on history provided by narrators or authors. This dissertation argues, primarily, that the event of the "Haitian Revolution" (1791-1804) was fundamental to Haitian understandings of the emplotment of the whole of Haitian history.

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