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    1. Columbia Professor Leads African American Delegation To Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    1997-06-25
    Published:
    Washington, DC
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Washington Informer
    Journal Title Details:
    37 : 3
    Notes:
    "Cuba has represented metaphorically the ability of an oppressed people to challenge imperialism and colonialism," Marable explained. "In the political imagination of Black America, Cuba represents the radical possibility of fundamental social change. One of the key questions now is -- what does Cuba represent for Black America in this period of political transition?"

    2. Conjuring freedom: Reconstructions and revisions of neo-slave narratives

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Montgomery,Christine Lupo (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    California: University of California, Santa Cruz
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    391 p., Argues for a revisionist periodization of neo-slave literature as well as a reorientation away from a US-based literary history that has been dominated by the mode of realism and toward a more comparative view defined by the geography, history, and aesthetics of the Caribbean. The canon of slave narratives was first dominated by the assumption both of narrative as the major and sometimes only genre of slave writing and of a linear temporality emplotting the journey from slavery to an attenuated freedom. In contrast, most twentieth-century neo-slave narratives rethink the genre from the twin standpoints of temporality and narratology: how both the "neo" and "narrative" descriptors have produced an entrenched and unnecessarily restrictive view of this evolving archive.