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2. Le baillonnement de la revolution haitienne dans l'imaginaire occidental a travers des textes fictionnels des dix-neuvieme et vingtieme siecles
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Delne,Claudy (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New York: City University of New York
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 395 p., Inspired by the study of Western historiography and the processes by which silence enters into history in Michel-Rolph Trouillot's seminal work, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, this dissertation demonstrates that fiction can be used both for silencing the past and for rewriting it. This study focuses on seven novels, one short story and two plays published between 1798 to 2007: Adonis ou le Bon Nègre by Jean-Baptiste Picquenard, L'Habitation de Saint-Domingue ou L'Insurrection by Charles de Rémusat, Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, Les Nuits chaudes du Cap-Français by Hugues Rebell, Drums at Dusk by Arna Bontemps, Le Royaume de ce monde (El reino de este mundo ) by Alejo Carpentier, Monsieur Toussaint by Edouard Glissant, and the trilogy of the historical novel (Le SouleÌvement des âmes, Le Maître des carrefours, La Pierre du bâtisseur ) by Madison Smartt Bell.
3. Oroonoko; or, The royal slave
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Behn,Aphra (Author), Gallagher,Catherine (Editor), and Stern,Simon (Contributor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Lexington, KY: Simon & BrownI
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 77 p., A short novel written by English female author Aphra Behn, published in 1688. It is the story of an African prince who deeply loves the beautiful Imoinda. Imoinda is eventually sold as a slave and is taken to Suriname which is under British rule. Oroonoko is taken prisoner, is sold, and finds himself and Imoinda enslaved on the same plantation. Contents: 1. To the right honourable the Lord Maitland. 2. The history of the royal slave.
4. Rewriting the return to Africa : voices of francophone Caribbean women writers
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- François,Anne M. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Lanham, Md: Lexington Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 111 p, Examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Negritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Negritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African past allegorized as a mother figure. In contrast these women writers, of the post-colonial era who are to large extent heirs of Negritude, differ sharply from their male counterparts in their representation of Africa. In their novels, the continent is not represented as a propitious mother figure but a disappointing father figure.
5. See Now Then
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kincaid,Jamaica (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013-01-01
- Published:
- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 182 p., About an ugly divorce in which the main characters bear a striking resemblance to Ms. Kincaid and to her former husband, Allen Shawn. Ms. Kincaid has denied that the book is strongly autobiographical. In this novel, a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. A mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future, constrained by the world, the characters despairing in their domestic situations.
6. She sex : prose & poetry - sex and the Caribbean woman
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Obè,Paula (Editor) and Hosein,Carol N. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Trinidad and Tobago: Bamboo Talk Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 104 p., She Sex could rightly be regarded as a trailblazing, transformative work, concerned with showcasing the innermost erotic stories of Caribbean Women.