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    1. Foot tracks in the ocean: Zora Neale Hurston and the creation of an African-American transcultural identity

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Coloma Penate,Patricia (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Georgia: Georgia State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    Focuses on African American and Afro-Hispanic literature and folklore. Employs Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation. Ortiz makes the case that a new Afro-Cuban identity is created with the intermingling of African, Spanish and native inhabitants of Cuba. Using Ortiz's critical framework as the foundation of this study, critiques of Zora Neale Hurston's portrayal of African American identity. Examines the parallel between her work and that of Lydia Cabrera, a Cuban ethnographer whose work represents Afro-Cuban identity as a transcultural one.

    2. Potent crossroads: Where U2 and progressive awareness meet

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Seiler,Rachel E., (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Section
    Publication Date:
    01/01; 2012
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Collected Work: Exploring U2: Is this rock 'n' roll? Essays on the music, work, and influence of U2.Pages: 38-53.(AN: 2012-00001).
    Notes:
    Crossroads populate religious and folkloric beliefs all around the world. Stories of an intersection of dimensions, as well as of roads where a guardian-trickster deity awaits to carry human desires to the gods, are widely encountered in European, Caribbean, and West African lore (as well as the legends formed around blues and rock stars). The symbolism of the crossroads speaks directly to one's innate recognition of a charged metaphorical space; a space that is liminal, betwixt-and-between. This notion of the crossroads serves as inspiration for examining the relationship between U2's music and listeners' progressive political awareness—the marriage of critical consciousness and action for social justice and change. To this end, an in-depth study is carried out of six listeners' experiences at the potent crossroads of their developing progressive awareness and their encounters with U2's music.