"Recent West Indian literature by women offers a locus of debate over the retrieval of the body from and within western discursive erasure. This erasure of the female body and its possible reclamation is of course central to contemporary feminist debate, and has its own genealogy within feminist discourse. My interest in this question, however, is in the ways in which colonialism's discursive and institutional apparatuses obliterated and continue to obliterate the colonised (specifically female) body, and the counter-colonial strategies by which this 'lost' body might be reclaimed. In their fiction Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid anatomize the body's erasure under a colonialist scriptive drive and explore potentials for the re/cognition of corporeality and sexuality." (author)
Cambridge [England] New York NY USA: Cambridge University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
313 p, "Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric--black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects of their work advance a critique of the assumptions underlying conventional perceptions and practice." (Google);
Rio Piedras, R: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
204 p, The author’s purpose of the twenty essays is to connect and revive the exchange of ideas, language and forms of thinkers from the 19th Century Puerto Ricans. This will reflect the regions traits through the studies of Literature, Social Sciences, Literary Critisim, History and languages.;
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Popular Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
365 p, "This book of essays - carefully written by twenty-four authorities on their subjects - provides a deep understanding of and appreciation for the coherence, primacy and, importance of the search for identity in the divergent areas of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Continent." (Barnes & Noble);
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
434 p, In the book Primordial Image it deals with Blacks and their influence in Caribbean literature. ; Revision of the author's thesis (PhD), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1983
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
132 p., This book was Gisela Kozak Rovero one of his first work of fiction form, and he spoke of Caribbean literature in the past and criticize some of the stories.