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    4. Correcting "a Touch of the Brush": Afro-Caribbean Racial Identity and Shame in Francisco Arrivi's Los vejigantes and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's Chombo

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Edison,Thomas Wayne (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall 2004
    Published:
    United States: Venderbilt University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Afro-Hispanic Review
    Journal Title Details:
    23(2) : 45-53
    Notes:
    Within sectors of North America's African-American community, the colloquial expression "being touched by the brush" describes a multi-ethnic individual that possesses subtle Negroid physical features which are only detectable by close inspection by a "trained eye." Here, Edison discusses the historical factors in Puerto Rico and Panama that make up the foundation upon which Francisco Arrivi's "Los Vejigantes" and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's "Chombo" were constructed.;

    8. Patterns and Periods: Oral Aesthetics and a Century of Jamaican Short Story Writing

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Simpson,Hyacinth (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Nov 2004
    Published:
    Jamaica: University of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of West Indian Literature
    Journal Title Details:
    12(1/2) : 1 microfiche
    Notes:
    Simpson discusses the rise in West Indian literature, especially addressing the increase in critical interest from the rest of the world for the abundance of West Indian short story collections that have appeared within the last two decades. The decades of the 1940s and 1950s are examined as the Golden Age of West Indian short stories, and compared to the single author collections that are now supported through popular sales.;

    9. Recalcitrant Muse: Race, Sex, and Historical Tension in the Search for the West Indian (Trans)Subject

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Jackson,Shona N. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    50(3) : 47-62
    Notes:
    "This paper explores the critical tensions surrounding the figure of Mariella in Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock." (Google)

    10. Recalling the West Indies: From Yoknapatawpha to Haiti and Back

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Matthews,John T. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    New York: Oxford University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    American Literary History
    Journal Title Details:
    16(2) : 238
    Notes:
    "[Thomas] Sutpen launches his design with that obliviousness that is American innocence. Once on Haiti, Sutpen disregards the manifest evidence of impending 'slave' revolt and hybrid racial ancestries. Sutpen's famously preserved innocence amounts to the habit of looking without seeing." (author)