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218 p, Contents: Origins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- Diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- Success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- Exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition;
"Caribbean literatures can claim a unique identity: they are one yet made of many, escaping easy categorization. But, to return to Kincaid, there is a way in which the Caribbean, in academic discourse, has become part of a larger picture which Caribbean inhabitants may not claim or recognize. At issue here is the extent to which academic discourse answers to the people of the region or ignores them." (author)
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290 p, Introduction. Conceptualizing creoleness : French Caribbean "postcolonial" discourse. -- La Lézarde : Alienation and the poetics of Antillanité. -- En attendant le bonheur : Creole conjunctions and cultural survival. -- LIsole Soleil/Soufrières : textual creolization and cultural identity. -- LAutre qui danse : the modalities and multiplicities of Métissage. -- Solibo magnifique : carnival, opposition, and the narration of the Caribbean maroon. -- Conclusion. Creolizing the colonial encounter.
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184 p, Contents: Introduction : Island sounds in the global city / Ray Allen & Lois Wilcken -- Buscando ambiente : Puerto Rican musicians in New York City, 1917-1940 / Ruth Glasser -- Representations of New York City in Latin music / Peter Manuel -- From transplant to transnational circuit : merengue in New York / Paul Austerlitz -- Recapturing history : the Puerto Rican roots of hip hop culture / Juan Flores -- "I am happy just to be in this sweet land of liberty" : the New York city calypso craze of the 1930s and 1940s / Donald Hill -- Community dramatized, community contested : the politics of celebration in the Brooklyn carnival / Philip Kasinitz -- Steel pan grows in Brooklyn : Trinidadian music and cultural identity / Ray Allen and Les Slater -- Moving the Big Apple : Tabou combo's diasporic dreams / Gage Averill -- The changing hats of Haitian staged folklore in New York City / Lois Wilcken.;
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205 p, Contents; Introduction: Historical survey of the Caribbean novel in English -- George Lamming : In the castle of my skin (Barbados, 1953) -- Paule Marshall : The chosen place, the timeless people (Barbados/U.S., 1969) -- Merle Hodge : Crick crack, monkey (Trinidad, 1970) -- Sam Selvon : Moses ascending (Trinidad, 1975) -- Michael Thelwell : The harder they come (Jamaica, 1980) -- Zee Edgell : Beka Lamb (Belize, 1982) -- Earl Lovelace : The wine of astonishment (Trinidad, 1982) -- Michelle Cliff : Abeng (Jamaica, 1984) -- C.L.R. James : Minty Alley (Trinidad, 1936) -- V.S. Reid : New day (Jamaica, 1949) -- Ralph de Boissière : Crown jewel (Trinidad, 1952) -- Roger Mais : The hills were joyful together (Jamaica, 1953) -- V.S. Naipaul : Miguel Street (Trinidad, 1959) -- Wilson Harris : The palace of the peacock (Guyana, 1960) -- Orlando Patterson : The children of Sisyphus (Jamaica, 1964) -- Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea (Dominica, 1966) -- Merle Collins : Angel (Grenada, 1987) -- Earl Lovelace : Salt (Trinidad, 1996); Includes bibliographical references ( [185]-199) and index.
