African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
274 p, "A model for theatre scholarship on racial impersonation."—Theatre Journal Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba. Through a study of Cuba's vernacular theatre, the teatro bufo, and of related forms of music, dance, and literature, Lane argues that blackface performance was a primary site for the development of mestizaje, Cuba's racialized national ideology, in which African and Cuban become simultaneously mutually exclusive and mutually formative." (Doris Sommer, Harvard University)
James,C. L. R. (Author), McLemee,Scott (Editor), and Le Blanc,Paul (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
252 p, Contents: Part 1 : Remembering C.L.R. James with chapters by Charles van Gelderen, Martin Glaberman, John Bracey and Paul Buhle -- Part 2 : Writings for the Trotskyist Press (1939 -- 1949) -- Afterword by Scott McLemee.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
147 p, The Caliban-Prospero encounter in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" has evolved as a metaphor for the colonial experience. The present study utilizes the Caliban symbol in examining the influence of colonialism in Caribbean literature, focusing on the works of three major writers from the Caribbean islands: Jean Rhys, of British descent from Dominica; George Lamming, of African origin from Barbados; and Sam Selvon, of mixed Indian and Scottish heritage from Trinidad.
