Mohammed,Patricia (Editor) and Shepherd,Catherine (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies, Women and Development Studies Project
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Inagural Seminar of the University of the West Indies, Women and Development Studies Project (1986 : Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago), 372 p, A collection of papers presented at a 2-week conference at the University of the West Indies. The conference came at a crucial time in the development of Women's Studies at the University. An official program of Women's Studies was about to be launched on the University's 3 campuses. The conference was concerned to create a program relevant to the actual needs of the Caribbean region.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
278 p, The liberalism of eighteenth century Trinidad, epitomized in the love between the black heroine and white hero, provides the ideal microcosm wherein Belgrave works out her humanitarian concerns that ultimately take on universal dimensions. (Vision Magazine)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
371 p, Contents: The problem of the problem of form -- Possession as metaphor : Lamming's Season of adventure -- The space between negations -- Assassins of the voice : Martin Carter's Poems of affinity, 1978-1980 -- Three for V -- The shape of that hurt : an introduction to Voiceprint -- Megalleons of light : Edward Brathwaite's Sun poem -- Brathwaite with a dash of brown :crit, the writer and the written life -- The rehumanization of history : regeneration of spirit, apocalypse and revolution in Brathwaite's The arrivants and X/Self -- Trophy and catastrophe : Guiyana Prize feature address -- Apocalypso and the Soca fires of 1990.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
168 p, "Sander contends that the sporadic nature of literary output in the island before the late 1920s can be explained in part as the consequence of Trinidad's linguistic diversity and its rapidly changing patterns of settlement." (Amazon)