Reviews books on Afro-Hispanic and Caribbean literature. Includes The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures, by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin; Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Daryl Cumber Dance; Nicolas Guillen: Popular Poet of the Caribbean, by Ian Isidore Smart.;
Inspired by the African Diaspora in the Caribbean, Katherine Dunham spearheaded an American dance revolution, breaking down social barriers and prejudice
Philipsburg, St. Martin: House of Nehesi Publishers
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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173 p., "Useful portraits of individuals who made major contributions to island's history. Includes slaves and revolts in which they participated, emancipation, and 20th-century developments. Also contains a useful section on the island's natural history"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Synopsis This biography of the writer and politician, recreates Allfrey's life against the background of 20th-century Caribbean political and literary history - from the decline of the planter class, the rise of party politics and the efforts to join the West Indies into a federation in the 1960s and 1970s. ;
Kwame Ture, once widely in the news as black activist Stokely Carmichael, still propounds that he is "ready for the revolution." Ture, who is under treatment for prostate cancer, defines himself as a revolutionary.
