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    1. <A Small Gathering of Bones, by Patricia Powell> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Adisa,Opal Palmer (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Summer, 1996
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    30(2) : 322-324
    Notes:
    A novel about how the plight of gays in Jamaica is linked to an international community through the interjection of the AIDS epidemic

    2. An Act of 'Unruly' Savagery: Re-Writing Black Rebellion in the Language of the Colonizer, Herbert G. de Lisser's the White Witch of Rosehall

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Dawes,Kwame S. N. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1994
    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:
    40(1) : 1-12
    Notes:
    Jamaican author (of European and African ancestry) H. G. De Lisser's novel the White Witch of Rosehall reflects arrogant European colonizing attitudes toward savage blacks in early 20th-century Jamaica

    3. Pagoda: An Excerpt

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Powell,Patricia (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Spring, 1996
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Callaloo
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    19(2) : 319-323

    5. The Indo-Caribbean Short Story

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Birbalsingh,Frank M. (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) : 118-135
    Notes:
    Birbalsingh discusses Indo-Caribbean culture, and the origins and influences of Indo-Caribbean short stories, beginning with the marriage of Indian and African oral traditions. Several authors from throughout Indo-CAribbean literature are profiled, including A. R. F. Webber, V. S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon.;