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2. Migrations and creative expressions in Africa and the African diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Falola,Toyin (Editor), Afolabi,Niyi (Editor), and Adesanya,Aderonke A. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 492 p., Includes Akintunde Akinyemi's "Transnational displacement and cultural continuity : the survival of Yorùbá religious poetry in the Americas," Niyi Afolabi's "Milton Nascimento's Missa dos Quilombos: musical invocation, race, and liberation," Christopher Adejumo's "Migration and slavery as paradigms in the aesthetic transformation of Yoruba art in the Americas," Ann Albuyeh's "'Africa speaks in me': how the diaspora shaped the languages of the Caribbean, then and now," Raphael Chijioke Njoku's "Symbols and meanings of Igbo masquerades and carnivals of the Black diaspora," and Ray A. Kea's "Religion, texts, and conversion in the eighteenth-century Danish West Indies : questions of self-identity and self-determination."
3. Recharting the Black Atlantic: modern cultures, local communities, global connections
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Oboe,Annalisa (Editor) and Scacchi,Anna (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- New York: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 423 p., Focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history. Includes Judith M. Williams' "Néritude as performance practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black experimental theatre," Richard Follett's "The spirit of Brazil: football and the politics of Afro-Brazilian cultural identity," Dorothea Fischer-Hornung's "Transbodied/transcultured : moving spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean," Elvira Pulitano's "Re-mapping Caribbean land(sea)scapes: aquatic metaphors and transatlantic homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic sound," and Antoinette Tidjani Alou's "Marine origins and anti-marine tropism in the French Caribbean: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart."
4. Retaking the Middle Passage: glimpses of a modern African diaspora in Brazil / Wangui Kimari --
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kimaria,Wangui (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- July, 2008
- Published:
- Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- African and black diaspora
- Journal Title Details:
- 1(2): 133-146
- Notes:
- Africans have begun to form a new diaspora in Brazil, the country with the largest concentration of Afro descendents outside of Africa. This paper aims to explore, through interviews, the various motivations and experiences of these Africans, as well as to examine the official attitude of the Brazilian authorities and that of the society at large to the new residents of this modern African diaspora.