243 p., Analyzes three novels by contemporary female Caribbean and Latin American Afro-descendent writers of the diaspora: Peruvian Lucía Charún-Illescas' Malambo (2001), Brazilian Ana Maria Gonçalves' Um defeito de cor (2006), and Puerto Rican Mayra Santos-Febres' Fe en disfraz (2009). In these texts, the old and the new intermingle in the space of the narrative. The colonial past is reexamined and reconstructed out of the need to understand its reminiscences into the present and the necessity to transform the future.
Myrsiades,Kostas (Author) and McGuire,Jerry (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
415 p, Includes Patrick Taylor' "Narrative, pluralism, and decolonization: recent Caribbean literature" and Mara L. Dukats' "The hybrid terrain of literary imagination: Maryse Condé's black witch of Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and Aimé Césaire's heroic poetic voice"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
312 p., Analyzes the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
323 p., A comprehensive study of the decisive 5-year period between 1962 and 1967 which witnessed the unfolding of an intense decolonization dialogue between Britain and its far-flung Eastern Caribbean possessions at the height of the Cold War.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
412 p, Includes Thomas Bonnici' "Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the river (1993)" and Adrian Grima's "They are us": interview with Caryl Phillips"
Considers how a taxonomy of conjugality-marriage, common-law marriage, and visiting relationships-emerged as a specialized vocabulary to apprehend and govern the postcolonial Caribbean.
377 p., Examines the representation of history in the Caribbean novel during the era of decolonization. Exploring the period from the 1930s to the 1970s, primarily in Trinidad, Barbados and Guyana, the author argues that the predominance of historical thinking in many of the exemplary novels and works of the time was not only a response to the denial by colonialism of the history of Caribbean peoples. Such prevalence was also to be found in new class relations, which began to appear during the inaugural moment of decolonization in the 1930s when, throughout the British Caribbean, popular rebellions effectively meant the end of colonial rule.
Examines the colonial experiences of eight formerly British-controlled territories- Barbados, Jamaica, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya, India, Burma, and Singapore -to identify how the processes and policies of the colonial enterprise affected their respective contemporary rule of law outcomes.
