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Reflects the traumatic history of imperialism and its political, economic, and cultural manifestations ranging from the Negritude literary movement to post-independence novelists. There is also a political engagement aroused by independence and early statehood
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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261 p, Contents: Map of the Caribbean -- Preface -- Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry -- West Indian poetry and its audience -- The Caribbean neighbourhood -- Overview of West Indian literary histories -- The relation to 'Europe' -- The relation to 'Africa' -- The relation to 'America' -- Guide to further reading.
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256 p., This book explores the common links and differences between the works of two modern Caribbean poets, Kamau Braithwaite and Dereck Walcott. The study focuses on the engagement of the two with the mythology of the Caribbean's African experience, defining each poet's contribution to the development of modern Caribbean poetics.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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187 p, Contents: Introduction: The Third Wave -- Guanahani -- Waves and Echoes -- Olive Senior: Country Air and Juggled Worlds -- Summer Lightning: Customs of the Country -- Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Discerner of Hearts: The Wider World -- Zee Edgell: The Belize Chronicles -- Beka Lamb: A Lesson in History -- In Times Like These: Growing into Home -- Shiva Naipaul: Choreographer of Chaos -- Essays and Stories -- Fireflies: Illuminating the Void -- The Chip-Chip Gatherers: Ropes Across the Abyss -- A Hot Country: Too Much Nothing -- Caryl Phillips: The End of All Exploring -- The Final Passage: The Book of the Parents -- A State of Independence: The Book of the Sons -- Cambridge: The Book of the Ancestors -- Robert Antoni: The Voyage In -- Short Fiction -- Divina Trace: The Tale of Telling.
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179 p, Catherine Le Pelletier discovered in 1993 a show literary that each month new books are presented. This book is the discovery of literature in black, and it brings together the main discussion of this issues.;
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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328 p, Content: The scope and limits of West Indian historiography -- The novel as history: Edgar Mittelholzer and V.S. Reid -- History as loss: determinism as vision and form in V.S. Naipaul -- Lamming and the mythic imagination: meaning and dimensions of freedom -- Beyond realism: Wilson Harris and the immateriality of freedom -- Transcending linear time: history and style in Derek Walcott's poetry -- From myth to dialectic: history in Derek Walcott's drama -- Edward Brathwaite and submerged history: the aesthetics of renaissance -- Configurations of history in the writing of West Indian women -- Africa in the historical imagination of the West Indian writer.
Hornung,Alfred (Author) and Ruhe,Ernstpeter (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Atlanta, GA: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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263 p, Revised manuscripts of the Anglophone workshops at the symposium on "Postcolonialism & Autobiography" which took place at Wurzburg, June 19-22, 1996
Newson,Adele S. (Author) and Strong-Leek,Linda (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
New York: Lang
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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237 p, Contents: De language reflect dem ethos : some issues with nation language / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Language and identity : the use of different codes in Jamaican poetry / Velma Pollard -- Orality and writing : a revisitation / Merle Collins -- Caribbean writers and Caribbean language : a study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Merle Hodge -- Francophone Caribbean women writers and the diasporic quest for identity : Marie Chauvet's Amour and Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon / Régine Altagrâce Latortue -- Unheard voice : Suzanne Césaire and the construct of a Caribbean identity / Maryse Condé --The silent game / Sybil Seaforth -- The politics of literature : Dominican women and the suffrage movement case study : Delia Weber / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Children in Haitian popular migration as seen by Maryse Condé and Edwidge Danticat / Marie-José N'Zengo-Tayo -- I'll fly away : reflections on life and the death penalty / Marion Bethel -- Of popular balladeers : narrative, gender, and popular culture / Lourdes Vázquez -- Between the milkman and the fax machine : challenges to women writers in the Caribbean / Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso ; translated by Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Frangipani House : Beryl Gilroy's praise song for grandmothers / Australia Tarver -- Anguish and the absurd : "key moments," recreated lives, and the emergence of new figures of Black womanhood in the narrative works of Beryl Gilroy / Joan Anim-Addo -- Women of color at the barricades / Beryl A. Gilroy -- Women against the grain : the pitfalls of theorizing Caribbean women's writing / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Ex/isle : separation, memory, and desire in Caribbean women's writing / Elaine Savory -- Dangerous liaison : western literary values, political engagements, and my own esthetics / Astrid H. Roemer -- The dynamics of power and desire in The pagoda / Patricia Powell -- Voices of the Black feminine corpus in contemporary Brazilian literature / Leda Maria Martins