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2. Bones cry out: Palo Monte/Mayombe in Santiago de Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Johnson,Sonya Maria (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Michigan: Michigan State University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 196 p., Argues that practitioners of Palo Monte/Mayombe in the city of Santiago de Cuba construct a religious genealogy inclusive of spirits to affirm their sense of an "African" identity in contemporary Cuba. Demonstrates that these practitioners' sense of being African includes an understanding that they are the ritual descendants and stewards of the blended spiritual knowledge created by sixteenth and seventeenth century AmerIndian Taíno and Kongolese inhabitants of eastern/Oriente, Cuba.
3. Crossroads of the World - Transatlantic Interrelations in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Timm,Birte (Author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2012-11
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 1-4
- Notes:
- The article reports on a conference on the history of the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean regions, held in Berlin, Germany, from July 2-3, 2012. Topics of discussion included creole and African diasporic identities, racism, nationalism, and ethnic relations in Caribbean states such as Cuba, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic, and migration.
4. Humor in the Caribbean literary canon
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vásquez,Sam (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 212 p., Examines writers, such as Louise Bennett, Aimé Césaire, Junot Díaz, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Winkler, who engage humor to challenge representations of people of African descent within canonical Western texts and forms.
5. Interstitial voices: The poetics of difference in Afrodiasporic women's literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sullivan,Mecca J. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 320 p., Examines the place of difference in black women's writing of the African diaspora. The works of well-known and canonical writers Toni Morrison, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, and Audre Lorde illustrate key functions of the poetics of difference. The author reads these writers alongside important but underexplored figures, including Ghanaian-born poet Ama Ata Aidoo, Cuban-born novelist Achy Obejas, Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand, and South African/Botswanan writer Bessie Head, as well as younger writers such as U.S.-born playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, Nigerian-born fiction writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and St. Thomas-born writer Tiphanie Yanique. These writers reframe identity around radical models of difference by: (1) developing and naming hybrid genres; and (2) destabilizing formal conventions of recognizable genres through multiplicities of voice. By highlighting difference as a core component of black female identity, these writers make crucial interventions in several areas, including Afrodiasporic cultural, feminist, queer, and postcolonial theories of identity, as well as feminist, Afrodiasporic cultural, formalist, and narratological conceptions of voice.
6. Passages to (Be) Longing: Contemporary Black Novels of Diaspora and Dislocation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Valkeakari,Tuire Maritta (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Connecticut: Yale University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 369 p., Looks at contemporary novels of the anglophone African diaspora through the lens of movement, migration, and dislocation, with particular attention to how the selected authors depict black diasporic identity formation, and how they contribute to it through their writings. Thematically, this dissertation examines literary representations of the social, cultural, and psychological consequences that involuntary and voluntary migrations have had for black communities and individuals in North America, the Caribbean, and Britain. It explores the juncture of history, memory, geography, and diasporic identity, as represented by eight contemporary novelists of African and African-Caribbean descent: Charles Johnson ( Middle Passage ), Lawrence Hill ( The Book of Negroes ), Toni Morrison (Sula and Tar Baby ), George Lamming (The Emigrants ), Caryl Phillips (The Final Passage, A State of Independence, and Crossing the River ), Andrea Levy (Small Island ), Cecil Foster (Sleep on, Beloved ), and Edwidge Danticat ( Breath, Eyes, Memory ).
7. Situating Black, Situating Queer: Black Queer Diaspora Studies and the Art of Embodied Listening
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gill,Lyndon K. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2012
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Transforming Anthropology
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(1) : 32-34
- Notes:
- Elaborates one Black queer subject's sense of self and gestures toward the potential theoretical intervention this subjectivity poses. It approaches a wider geo-conceptual metaphor for the transdisciplinarity required in order to speculate Black and queer at once.
8. Surviving slavery: Politics, power, and authority in the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Browne,Randy M. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 274 p., Explores a broad range of power relationships and struggles for authority in the early 19th century British Atlantic, focusing on the Caribbean colony of Berbice. I aim to understand how enslaved people and their enslavers negotiated their relationships and forged their lives within multiple, interconnected networks of power in a notoriously brutal society. Focuses on politics and culture writ large and small, zooming in to see the internal conflicts, practices, and hierarchies that governed individual plantations, communities, and families; and zooming out to explore the various ways that imperial officials, colonial administrators, and metropolitan antislavery activists tried to shape Caribbean area slavery during the era of amelioration-a crucial period of transformation in the Atlantic world. Sources used include travel narratives, trial records, missionary correspondence, and official government documents. Most important are the records of the Berbice fiscals and protectors of slaves, officials charged with hearing enslaved peoples' grievances and enforcing colonial laws.