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    1. Main themes in twentieth-century Afro-Hispanic Caribbean poetry: a literary sociology

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Roberts,Nicole (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    312 p., Argues for inclusion of more Afro-Hispanic poets in the Caribbean literary canon. This book offers an introductory overview of the literary tradition of Black writing in the Hispanic Caribbean. It also provides a survey of black poets.

    2. Sea of bones: The Middle Passage in contemporary poetry of the black Atlantic

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Elliott,Danielle Georgette (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    New Jersey: Princeton University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    225 p., Drawing attention to poets whose writing on this subject has received little critical attention, this study examines contemporary poetry of the black Atlantic in particular focusing on work by Kwame Dawes, David Dabydeen, Lucille Clifton, and Elizabeth Alexander. In exploring poetic treatment of the Middle Passage, primarily through the lyric, epic, and long poem, the author identifies four interrelated poetics that reveal the dynamism of this legacy: lamentation, retribution, rupture, and re-membering. While critical analysis of texts that rewrite slave experiences has tended to focus on narrative, and that primarily on plantation slavery, "Sea of Bones" advocates attention to the way black Atlantic poetry renders the Middle Passage as a complicated and haunting personal heritage.