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2. Historical thought and literary representation in West Indian literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wilson-Tagoe,Nana (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1998
- Published:
- Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 328 p, Content: The scope and limits of West Indian historiography -- The novel as history: Edgar Mittelholzer and V.S. Reid -- History as loss: determinism as vision and form in V.S. Naipaul -- Lamming and the mythic imagination: meaning and dimensions of freedom -- Beyond realism: Wilson Harris and the immateriality of freedom -- Transcending linear time: history and style in Derek Walcott's poetry -- From myth to dialectic: history in Derek Walcott's drama -- Edward Brathwaite and submerged history: the aesthetics of renaissance -- Configurations of history in the writing of West Indian women -- Africa in the historical imagination of the West Indian writer.
3. Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Other Bonaparte!
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dowdy,Eliz C. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1998-02-28
- Published:
- San Bernardino, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Precinct Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 5
- Notes:
- Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Other Bonaparte! When the friction of social injustice and deprivation ignite that fuel, glimmers of hope begin to surface. So it happened with the baby boy who came on the world scene as Toussaint L'Ouverture. Acts such as these stirred [Toussaint]; he felt destined to remedy the societal ills. He also knew the time was not yet right, so he waited and learned. Toussaint became the most humble, obliging slave. He was held up as a model to other slaves.