African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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256 p., This book explores the common links and differences between the works of two modern Caribbean poets, Kamau Braithwaite and Dereck Walcott. The study focuses on the engagement of the two with the mythology of the Caribbean's African experience, defining each poet's contribution to the development of modern Caribbean poetics.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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341 p., Examines the long-running debate between the proponents of Afro-Cuban cultural manifestations and the predominantly white Cuban intelligentsia who viewed these traditions as "backward" and counter to the interests of the young Republic. Includes analyses of the work of Felipe Pichardo Moya, Alejo Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, Emilio Ballagas, José Zacarías Tallet, Felix B. Caignet, Marcelino Arozarena, and Alfonso Camín.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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241 p., An examination of the importance of international cross-influences between modernist poets in the Americas. Includes "From Harlem to Haiti: Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain and the avant-gardes," "Signifying modernism in Wilson Harris's Eternity to season" and "Beyond apprenticeship: Derek Walcott's passage to the Americas."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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187 p., Looks primarily at Negrismo and Negritude, two literary movements that appeared in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean as well as in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It draws on speeches and manifestos, and use cultural studies to contextualize ideas.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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495 p., Investigates the diverse poetic manifestations of a sensibility that may be designated as French Caribbean through a close reading of a representative sample of poems. Many are presented here in translation for the first time. Contents: Marie-Magdeleine Carbet -- Léon-Gontran Damas -- Aimé Césaire -- Edouard Glissant -- Guy Tirolien -- Yves Padoly -- Joseph Polius -- Gilette Bazile, Marcelle Archelon-Pépin, Michèle Bilavarn.
