"This essay addresses the horrific struggles of enslaved Africans during the "Middle Passage" and argues that the "Black Atlantic" can be considered as a form of existential crucifixion for those whose lives were decimated during the traversing of this oceanic divide between their old world and the new. The author argues that this existential crucifixion represents a kind of collective experiential-historical "Low Saturday" for Diasporan African peoples, in that the failure of full freedom to emerge for "us" suggests that Easter Sunday is an aspirational dream rather than a contextual reality." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Kachru,Braj B. (Editor), Kachru,Yamuna (Editor), and Nelson,Cecil L. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
811 p., A collection of articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world. Includes Michael Aceto's "Caribbean Englishes."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
331 p., Partly autobiographical, this novel looks at the racial politics of the 1950s and 1960s. Ramsay Tull is witness to the black racial discontents and the desire for national independence that are threatening the old colonial order; but when a chance comes to study at Oxford University, he becomes immersed in European literary culture and Marxism. On his return to Jamaica, Ramsay becomes actively involved in radical nationalist politics and begins his second journey, away from his middle-class origins and back to a true appreciation of the Jamaican people.
In characterizing the desperate journeys undertaken by African and Haitian refugees as today's "middle passages," Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Edwidge Danticat's "Children of the Sea" complicate the idea of a single origin to a transatlantic black Diaspora. The term 'middle passage' is more recently used to describe multiple crossings that transform the meaning of Diaspora into a vital and ongoing process.
Okpewho,Isidore (Editor) and Nzegwu,Nkiru (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
531 p., Traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. Includes Georges E. Fouron's "I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people"; John A. Arthur's "Immigrants and the American system of justice: perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks"; and Perry Mars' "The Guyana diaspora and homeland conflict resolution."
Geggus,David P. (Author) and Fiering,Norman (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
419 p, Contents: Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Haitian Revolution /; David Geggus --; Vestiges of the built landscape of pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue /; Jacques de Cauna --; Saint-Domingue's free people of color and the tools of revolution /; John D. Garrigus --; On the road to citizenship : the complex route to integration of the free people of color in the two capitals of Saint-Domingue /; Dominique Rogers --; The trans-Atlantic king and imperial public spheres : everyday politics in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue /; Gene E. Ogle --; The insurgents of 1791, their leaders, and the concept of independence /; Yves Benot --; Avenging America : the politics of violence in the Haitian Revolution /; Laurent Dubois --; "Fêtes de l'hymen, fêtes de la liberté" : marriage, manhood, and emancipation in revolutionary Saint-Domingue /; Elizabeth Colwill --; "The colonial vendée" /; Malick Ghachem --; The Saint-Domingue slave revolution and the unfolding of independence, 1791-1804 /; Carolyn E. Fick --; The French Revolution's other island /; Jeremy D. Popkin --; Speaking of Haiti : slavery, revolution, and freedom in Cuban slave testimony /; Ada Ferrer --; The Saint-Dominguan refugees and American distinctiveness in the early years of the Haitian Revolution /; Ashli White --; "Free upon higher ground" : Saint-Domingue slaves' suits for freedom in U.S. courts, 1792-1830 /; Sue Peabody --; Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil, 1791-1850 /; Joao José Reis and Flavio dos Santos Gomes --; The specter of Saint-Domingue : American and French reactions to the Haitian Revolution /; Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall --; Representations of the Haitian Revolution in French literature /; Léon-François Hoffmann --; Neoclassicism and the Haitian Revolution /; Carlo Céliu
363 p., investigates the pre- and post- migratory experiences of working-class African-Caribbean women from the English-speaking Caribbean who left their children in their home countries while pursuing better economic opportunities in Canada from the 1970s to the early 1990s. The author problematizes the intersectional relationship between female migrant labor, transnationality and motherhood within the rubric of globalized gender, race and class relations. Given the centrality of African-Caribbean women's worker-mother role in their societies, further exploration of this role within global migration is important in order to recognize its significant gendered impact on women's labor and familial relations on a transnational level.
Gafaïti,Hafid (Author), Lorcin,Patricia M. E. (Author), and Troyansky,David G. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
460 p, Includes Joseph Militello's "Madwoman in the Senegalese Muslim attic: reading Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane and Mariama Bâ's Un chant écarlate"
