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2. Oroonoko; or, The royal slave
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Behn,Aphra (Author), Gallagher,Catherine (Editor), and Stern,Simon (Contributor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Lexington, KY: Simon & BrownI
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 77 p., A short novel written by English female author Aphra Behn, published in 1688. It is the story of an African prince who deeply loves the beautiful Imoinda. Imoinda is eventually sold as a slave and is taken to Suriname which is under British rule. Oroonoko is taken prisoner, is sold, and finds himself and Imoinda enslaved on the same plantation. Contents: 1. To the right honourable the Lord Maitland. 2. The history of the royal slave.
3. Rewriting the return to Africa : voices of francophone Caribbean women writers
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- François,Anne M. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Lanham, Md: Lexington Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 111 p, Examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Negritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Negritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African past allegorized as a mother figure. In contrast these women writers, of the post-colonial era who are to large extent heirs of Negritude, differ sharply from their male counterparts in their representation of Africa. In their novels, the continent is not represented as a propitious mother figure but a disappointing father figure.
4. She sex : prose & poetry - sex and the Caribbean woman
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Obè,Paula (Editor) and Hosein,Carol N. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Trinidad and Tobago: Bamboo Talk Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 104 p., She Sex could rightly be regarded as a trailblazing, transformative work, concerned with showcasing the innermost erotic stories of Caribbean Women.
5. The bridge of beyond
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Schwarz-Bart,Simone (Author) and Bray,Barbara (Translator)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New York: New York Review Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Translation of Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1972)., 246 p, A tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells her life story and tells us about the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from. Simone Schwarz-Bart's incantatory prose, interwoven with Creole proverbs and lore, appears here in a remarkable translation by Barbara Bray.