Reviews Sybille Fischer's Modernity Disavowed; Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2004); Patricia D. Fox's Being and Blackness in Latin America; Uprootedness and Improvisation (2006); Eleuterio Santiago-Dîaz's Escritura of ropuertorriqueòa y modernidad (2007); and Lucîa M. Suârez's The Tears of Hispaniola; Haitian and Dominican Diaspora Memory (2006).
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226 p., A cultural history of Rio de Janeiro's Cidade Nova from the arrival of the Portuguese court in 1808. The area became identified with Afro-descendents and Ashkenazi Jews, but it was also inhabited by Spanish, Italian and Portuguese immigrants. discusses intersections between literary imaginaries and urban experiences, involving topics like social segregation, cultural memory, spatial porosity, cognitive mapping, and the idea of the city as a palimpsest.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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232p., Using a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora in the writings of women from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Mehta expands notions of Caribbean identity.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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174 p, Contents: Ta mission, Marny / Gisèle Pineau -- Le coq rouge Jaffar, ou, Le maléfice de Satan / Fortuné Chalumeau -- Du fond des casseroles / Simone Schwarz-Bart -- La femme-fleuve / Ernest Pépin -- L'odeur de la terre humide / Dominique Deblaine
84 p., Examines literary blackness in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. The literary construct of the GhettoNerd, a character whose voice and worldview is informed not only by the harsh realities of inner-city life, but also by the other-worldliness of Genre and popular culture, stands as a testament to the cultural mixtape that is hip-hop. The author argues that the GhettoNerd is useful for making visible historical trauma and exposing marginalization while articulating agency and self-determination. In the case of Oscar Wao, Díaz creates the GhettoNerd in a Dominican context as a vehicle for exposing the blanqueamiento, the trujillato, and the deracialization among the Dominican diaspora.
Niblett,Michael (Editor) and Oloff,Kerstin (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Amsterdam ; New York: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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270 p., Includes Heidi Bojsen's "Other Americas, other genderings : postcolonial heroines and rhizomatic geographies in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes," Patricia Krus' "The ethics of postcolonial healing in Astrid Roemer's trilogy of Suriname," Paulette Ramsay's "Cross-cultural poetics : debating the place of Afro-Mexican poetry in the context of Caribbean literary and cultural aesthetics," Theo D'haen's "Exile, Caribbean literature, and the world republic of letters" and Kerstin D. Oloff's "Wilson Harris, regionalism and postcolonial studies."
Joseph-Vilain,Mélanie (Editor), Misrahi-Barak,Judith (Editor), and Turcotte,Gerry (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Essays from an international conference held at Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier III, in November 2007, organised by the Cerpac (Centre d'étude et de recherches sur les pays du Commonwealth/Research Centre on the Commonwealth)., 481 p., Includes Anthony Carrigan's "Haunted places, development, and opposition in Kamau Brathwaite's The Namsetoura papers," Maurizio Calbi's "Writing with ghosts : Shakespearean spectrality in Derek Walcott's A branch of the Blue Nile," Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère's "Rattling Perrault's dry bones : Nalo Hopkinson's literary voodoo in Skin folk,"
Prudence Layne's "Reincarnating Legba : Caribbean writers at the crossroads,"
Timothy Weiss' "The living and the dead : translational identities in Wilson Harris's The tree of the sun," and Kerry-Jane Wallart's "The ghost in Wilson Harris's The Guyana quartet : matter that matters."
211 p., Explores the similarities and differences which characterize the depiction of people of color in certain representative 19th century Cuban and Brazilian slavery novels as a function of the authorial approach of each territory's literary tradition toward the issues of slavery, racial prejudice, and people of color. The selected texts, derived from the peak periods in slavery literature of each territory, include Francisco , by Anselmo Snárez y Romero; Sab , by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda; Cecilia Valdés , by Cirilo Villaverde; A escrava Isaura , by Bernardo Guimarães; O mulato , by Aluísio Azevedo; and Bom-Crioulo , by Adolfo Caminha. While the present study explores the enslavement, abuse, and discrimination of people of color as a consequence of a deep-seated discourse of power, privilege and racial superiority, it focuses more extensively on the representation of people of color, particularly in their capacity to constructively appropriate the cultural values of the white dominant group and recognize their identity as ambiguous.
