Roa Bastos,Augusto Antonio (Author), Maciel,Alejandro (Author), Prego,Omar (Author), and Nepomuceno,Eric (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Buenos Aires: Alfaguara
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
249 p., "On the opposite side of the Paraguay River, the Gran Chaco, has founded a large quilombo or establishment of fugitives, where Brazil and Argentina, eastern and Paraguayans live together in mutual friendship or enmity with the rest of the world." So wrote Sir Richard Burton, traveling consul of Her Britannic Majesty. War was declared. In this fictional account the authors recreate alternatives to that struggle: dialogue between General Mitre and his deputy, the painter Candido Lopez; the last period of resistance Marshal Solano Lopez and his wife, Madame Lynch; the defection of Argentine captain Francisco Paunero; the secret archives of General Rocha Uruguayan Dellpiane, and the anodyne existence of Baron VII Ramalho, a descendant of one of the conspirators of Quilombo Gran Chaco.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
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.
Glissant,Edouard (Author) and Wing,Betsy (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
eng
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
294 p., Tells of the quest by Mathieu Beluse to discover the lost history of his country, Martinique. This book tells of the love-hate relationship between the Longoue and Beluse families, whose ancestors were brought as slaves to Martinique.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
250 p, Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au Sel, a small village in Guadeloupe. None of the villagers are particularly surprised, since Sancher, a secretive and melancholy man, had often predicted an unnatural death for himself. As the villagers come to pay their respects they each--either in a speech to the mourners, or in an internal monologue--reveal another piece of the mystery behind Sancher's life and death. Like pieces of an elaborate puzzle, their memories interlock to create a rich and intriguing portrait of a man and a community.
