DeLoughrey,Elizabeth M. (Author), Gosson,Renee K. (Author), and Handley,George B. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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303 p, Contents: Sugar and the environment in Cuba / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Isla incognita / Derek Walcott -- Shaping the environment : sugar plantation, or life after identured labor / Cyril Dabydeen -- Coffee and colonialism in Julia Alvarez's A cafecito story / Trenton Hickman -- Subjection and resistance in the transformation of Guyana's mytho-colonial landscape / Shona N. Jackson -- A long bilingual conversation concerning paradise lost : landscapes in Haitian art / LeGrace Benson -- "Caribbean genesis" : language, gardens, worlds (Jamaica Kincaid, Derek Walcott, Édouard Glissant) / Jana Evans Braziel -- "The argument of the outboard motor" : an interview with Derek Walcott / George B. Handley -- Cultural and environmental assimilation in Martinique : an interview with Raphaël Confiant / Renée K. Gosson -- Moving the Caribbean landscape : Cereus blooms at night as a re-imagination of the Caribbean environment / Isabel Hoving -- "Rosebud is my mama, stanfaste is my papa" : hybrid landscapes and sexualities in Surinamese oral literature / Natasha Tinsley -- "He of the trees" : nature, environment, and Creole religiosities in Caribbean literature / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- "Man fitting the landscape" : nature, culture, and colonialism / Helen Tiffin -- Flashbacks of an orchid : rhizomatic narration in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Heidi Bojsen -- Landscapes, narratives, and tropical nature : Creole modernity in Suriname / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger -- The uses of landscape : ecocriticism and Martinican cultural theory / Eric Prieto -- From living nature to borderless culture in Wilson Harris's work / Hena Maes-Jelinek -- Epilogue : Theatre of the arts / Wilson Harris
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187 p, Contents: Introduction: The Third Wave -- Guanahani -- Waves and Echoes -- Olive Senior: Country Air and Juggled Worlds -- Summer Lightning: Customs of the Country -- Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Discerner of Hearts: The Wider World -- Zee Edgell: The Belize Chronicles -- Beka Lamb: A Lesson in History -- In Times Like These: Growing into Home -- Shiva Naipaul: Choreographer of Chaos -- Essays and Stories -- Fireflies: Illuminating the Void -- The Chip-Chip Gatherers: Ropes Across the Abyss -- A Hot Country: Too Much Nothing -- Caryl Phillips: The End of All Exploring -- The Final Passage: The Book of the Parents -- A State of Independence: The Book of the Sons -- Cambridge: The Book of the Ancestors -- Robert Antoni: The Voyage In -- Short Fiction -- Divina Trace: The Tale of Telling.
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353 p, Contents: The unity of Caribbean literature -- Toward a Caribbean poetics -- Kamau Brathwaite and the Caribbean word -- Stages of the sacred in René Depestre -- Pedro Mir and the historical imagination -- Conclusion: the Caribbean in a decentralized literary order.
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228 p, Contents: Canonized hybridities, resistant hybridities: Chutney Soca, carnival, and the politics of nationalism / Shalini Puri -- Soca and social formations: avoiding the romance of culture in Trinidad / Stefano Harney -- Trinidad romance: the invention of Jamaican carnival / Belinda J. Edmondson -- All that is black melts into air: negritud and nation in Puerto Rico / Catherine Den Tandt -- Positive vibration? Capitalist textual hegemony and Bob Marley / Mike Alleyne --"Titid ad pèp la se marasa": Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the new national romance in Haiti / Kevin Meehan -- Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: the politics of identity in postcolonial Martinique / Richard Price and Sally Price -- Beautiful Indians, troublesome negroes, and nice white men: Caribbean romances and the invention of Trinidad / Faith Smith -- Homing instincts: immigrant nostalgia and gender politics in Brown girl, brownstones / Supriya Nair -- Derek Walcott: liminal spaces/substantive histories / Tejumola Olaniyan
Wellesley, Mass.: Calaloux Publications;Amherst : Distributed by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Location:
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First International Conference on the Women Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, April 1988, 382 p, In 1831, three years before England abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, the narrative of Mary Prince was published in London. It was the first account written by a Caribbean slave to be published. Although narratives and stories of Caribbean women have appeared sporadically in subsequent years, it is only since 1970 that a wave of women's writing has innudated the field, thereby changing the horizons of Caribbean literature.
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201 p, Focuses on the literature of Caribbean women writers in the 1980s and 1990s particularly the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Erna Brodber, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Merle Hodge. (Amazon.com)
Glaser,Marlies (Author) and Pausch,Marion (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Amsterdam: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
The volume consists of a bilingual introduction of “parallelism of literary and cultural preoccupations” between Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literatures. As well as English-and French-language articles on Caribbean poetry, novels, and theater. Also, includes interviews with six Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean authors and book reviews.;
"Caribbean literatures can claim a unique identity: they are one yet made of many, escaping easy categorization. But, to return to Kincaid, there is a way in which the Caribbean, in academic discourse, has become part of a larger picture which Caribbean inhabitants may not claim or recognize. At issue here is the extent to which academic discourse answers to the people of the region or ignores them." (author)
"Recent West Indian literature by women offers a locus of debate over the retrieval of the body from and within western discursive erasure. This erasure of the female body and its possible reclamation is of course central to contemporary feminist debate, and has its own genealogy within feminist discourse. My interest in this question, however, is in the ways in which colonialism's discursive and institutional apparatuses obliterated and continue to obliterate the colonised (specifically female) body, and the counter-colonial strategies by which this 'lost' body might be reclaimed. In their fiction Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid anatomize the body's erasure under a colonialist scriptive drive and explore potentials for the re/cognition of corporeality and sexuality." (author)
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325 p, "This is the first comprehensive study of a powerful and distinctive body of poetry that has emerged in the West Indies over the last fifteen years." (Publisher)
San Cristóbal, Edo. Táchira, Venezuela: Universidad de los Andes, Núcleo Universitario del Táchira
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
1
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Contexto's focus is on literature from the most diverse perspectives criticism, literary phenomenon in its widest dimension aesthetic and humanistic. Serial Publication: Periodical: Semiannual (twice a year)
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290 p, Introduction. Conceptualizing creoleness : French Caribbean "postcolonial" discourse. -- La Lézarde : Alienation and the poetics of Antillanité. -- En attendant le bonheur : Creole conjunctions and cultural survival. -- LIsole Soleil/Soufrières : textual creolization and cultural identity. -- LAutre qui danse : the modalities and multiplicities of Métissage. -- Solibo magnifique : carnival, opposition, and the narration of the Caribbean maroon. -- Conclusion. Creolizing the colonial encounter.
James,Conrad (Author) and Perivolaris,John (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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280 p., "While difficult to define--and sometimes even to locate—the Hispanic Caribbean is fraught with tension. The region includes nations that have common histories yet very different contemporary political characteristics. This collection maps out the reasons behind the tensions and looks specifically at the distinctive causes and founding concepts of the area." (Google) Includes: Ian Isidore Smart's "Discovering Nicolás Guillén through Afrocentric Literary Analysis"; Efraín Barradas' "Nancy Morejón: Nation, Negritude, and Marginality"; Manuel Granados' "Notes on the History of Blacks in Cuba . . . and May Elegguá Be with Me"; Jorge Marbán's "Transculturation and Integration of the Afro-Venezuelan World in the Contemporary Venezuelan Novel";
Gutiérrez de Velasco,Luzelena (Author), Prado,Gloria (Author), and Domenella,Ana Rosa (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
México, D.F. ; UAM-Iztapalapa: Colegio de México, Iztapalapa
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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407 p, Aunque parezca un clisé, los pesares y las alegrías definen la vida de los seres humanos. Este volumen reúne deiversas lecturas sobre escritoras latinoamericanas -entre otras cosas, Clarice Lispector, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Victoria Ocampo, Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi- a partir de esos dos ejes temáticos. Los acercamientos se sustentan en propuestas metodólogicas y enfoques teóricos de actualidad. www.libreria.mora.edu.mx; Project undertaken by the Taller de Teoría y Crítica Literaria "Diana Morán"-Coyoacán
Cambridge [England] New York NY USA: Cambridge University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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313 p, "Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric--black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects of their work advance a critique of the assumptions underlying conventional perceptions and practice." (Google);
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252 p, Book Description A portrait of a diaspora community in motion, this book documents the social and cultural development of a people “without history,” a people who have sometimes been dismissed as foreigners who merely perpetuate the culture of the homeland rather than becoming “truly” Caribbean. Also contains a CD --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. (Amazon);
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342 p, Examines how the low socioeconomic status of the black population in Cuba informs the representation of black characters in Cuban narrative fiction. From its very first example (Espejo de paciencia, 1608) until the most recent short fiction written after the 1959 Revolution, Cuban narrative fiction has played (and still plays) an important role in creating and maintaining the subaltern position of the black population in Cuba.
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179 p, Catherine Le Pelletier discovered in 1993 a show literary that each month new books are presented. This book is the discovery of literature in black, and it brings together the main discussion of this issues.;
Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Linda M. (Author), González Hernández,Miriam Mercedes (Author), and Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Miriam M.González Hernández (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Bronx, NY: Latino Press, Latin American Writers Institute, Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, CUNY
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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253 p, International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers (7th : 2000 : Mayagüez, P.R.); Conference held Apr. 3-7, 2000, in Mayagüez and Ponce, R.
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145 p, Establishes connections between the themes and methodologies of writers within the South Asian Diaspora in the New World, and serves both serious analysts as well as beginning readers of South Asian fiction. (Barnes & Nobles)
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.;