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2. Arms akimbo: Africana women in contemporary literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Liddell,Janice (Editor) and Kemp, Yakini Belinda
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 268 p., In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives accessible to both scholars and students. Includes Carolyn Cooper's "Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting," Paula C. Barnes "Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition," and Erna Brodber's "Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols."
3. Caribbean shadows Victorian ghosts: women's writing and decolonization
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Renk,Kathleen J. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 174 p., Reading the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, and Michelle Cliff alongside British texts such as Dickens's Great Expectations and Bronte's Jane Eyre, Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the myth of the family as it is constructed in 19th century British and colonial texts. These women writers reconfigure Caribbean identity, family, and nation according to cross-cultural, trans-national and transtemporal paradigms.