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2. Framing the word: gender and genre in Caribbean women’s writing
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anim-Addo,Joan (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- London; Concord, MA, USA: Whiting and Birch, Paul and Co., Publishers’ Consortium
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 260 p, Contents: Framing the word: Caribbean women’s writing / Merle Collins -- En-gendering spaces: the poetry of Marlene Nourbese Philip and Pamela Mordecai / Elaine Savory -- Writing for resistance: nationalism and narratives of liberation / Alison Donnell -- Jamaica Kincaid’s prismatic self and the decolonisation of language and thought / Giovanna Covi -- Figures of silence and orality in the poetry of M. Nourbese Philip / David Marriott -- Saint Lucien Lawòz and Lamagwit songs within the Caribbean and African tradition / Morgan Dalphinis -- Keeping tradition alive / Jean Buffong -- New encounters: availability, acceptability and accessibility of new literature from Caribbean women / Susanna Steele and Joan Anim-Addo in conversation -- Children should be seen and spoken to: or writing for and about children / Thelma Perkins -- ’A world of Caribbean romance’: reformulating the legend of love or ’can a caress be culturally specific?’ / Jane Bryce -- Houses and homes: Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s riddle and Beryl Gilroy’s Frangipani house / Mary Condé -- Women writers in twentieth century Cuba: an eight-point survey / Catherine Davies -- Patterns of resistance in Afro-Cuban women’s writing: Nancy Morejón’s ’Amo a mi amo’ / Conrad James -- Encoding the voice: Caribbean women’s writing and Creole / Susanne Mühleisen -- Surinam women writers and issues of translation / Petronella Breinburg -- Frangipani house / Beryl Gilroy -- ’One of the most beautiful islands in the world and one of the unluckiest’: Jean Rhys and Dominican national identity / Thorunn Lonsdale -- Audacity and outcome: writing African-Caribbean womanhood / Joan Anim-Addo -- Coming out of repression: Lakshmi Persaud’s Butterfly in the wind / Kenneth Ramchand.;
3. House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rodríguez,Ileana (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 223 p, Ileana Rodriguez's House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women offers an insightful look into the role the feminine has played in the constructions of nation and nationalism in critical moments of Latin American history. Although feminism is at the center of the study, it is always predicated by concerns of ethnicity and social class. (BNET);
4. Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- West,Alan (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- Published:
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 214 p, This study offers a unique perspective in interpreting the cultural politics of Cuba's complex history through an exploration of the country's literature. The book introduces readers to some of Cuba's most eminent and engaging voices by examining some of the historical tropes put forth by major writers. Drawing on an array of interpretive approaches from mythopoetic analysis to phenomenology, West addresses the work of Nancy Morejon, Alejo Carpentier, Virgilio Pinera, Dulce Maria Loynaz, Jose Lezama Lima, and Severo Sarduy. This poetic look at Cuba's rich and turbulent history through the eyes of its writers will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American history and culture; Includes bibliographical references
5. Visions of Liberation in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Irish,James Alfred George (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- Plymouth Montserrat W.I. [New York]: JAGPI Productions Caribbean Research Center Medgar Evers College City University of New York
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 92 p., A study of liberation issues in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti and the West Indies, concerning emancipation, revolution, nationalism, magical realism, negrismo, identity and the role of academia.(CRS- Publication)