African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Reflects the traumatic history of imperialism and its political, economic, and cultural manifestations ranging from the Negritude literary movement to post-independence novelists. There is also a political engagement aroused by independence and early statehood
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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214 p, "Examines the historical novel that has emerged in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean since the late 1930s and includes such writers as Edouard Glissant of Martinique and Paul Hazoumé of Benin." (Amazon.com)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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261 p, Contents: Map of the Caribbean -- Preface -- Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry -- West Indian poetry and its audience -- The Caribbean neighbourhood -- Overview of West Indian literary histories -- The relation to 'Europe' -- The relation to 'Africa' -- The relation to 'America' -- Guide to further reading.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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183 p, "Prose fiction, mainly novels, written by people who were born or who grew up in the West Indies. The literary works to be approached usually have a West Indian setting. The books have all been written in the twentieth century." (Publisher)
