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    3. "Sis Cat" as Ethnographer: Self-Presentation and Self-Inscription in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Boxwell,D. A. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Winter 1992
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    26.(4.) : 605-617 P.
    Notes:
    Examines Zora Neale Hurston's work, particularly her collection of folklore and ethnography of the American South, "Mules and Men." Looks at the author's role, the ways the ethnographer inscribes herself into the text, and speculates about Hurston's understanding of the limits of the impersonal researcher.

    4. "Strangers in a new land": Palo Mayombe, an African-Cuban religious tradition in the diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nodal,Roberto (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Ann Arbor, MI
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations
    Notes:
    247 p., Discusses the diasporic origins of Palo Mayombe, a Kongo-Cuban religious tradition, while seeking to analyze how it fulfills, in a new transplanted setting, the spiritual needs of a given segment of the Cuban immigrant population in the United States—designated here as the “strangers in a new land”—“serving not only as a healing mechanism but also a vehicle towards the preservation of ethnic and cultural identity.”

    7. <Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora, by Margarite Fernández Olmos; Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Payne-Jackson,Arvilla (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    January, 2002
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    58(3) : 484
    Notes:
    "The Spanish expression--la cultura cura (culture heals)--is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people"

    9. <Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture, and Politics, by Patrick Taylor>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hintzen,Percy C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    October, 1991
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    48(2) : 312-313