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2. Decolonizing transnational subaltern women: The case of Kurasolenas and New York Dominicanas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cornet,Florencia V. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- South Carolina: University of South Carolina
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 351 p., Explores the racial and gender decolonization of New York and Curaçaoan women in a select group of novels, paintings and performance text by women from Curaçao and New York City. The Curaçaoan novels are: Aliefka Bijlsma's Gezandstraald [Sandblasted] (2007); Loeki Morales' Bloedlijn Overzee: Een Familiezoektocht [Overseas Bloodline: A Family Search] (2002); Myra Römer's Het Geheim van Gracia [The Secret of Gracia] (2008). The Curaçaoan painters are: Jean Girigori (1948), Minerva Lauffer (1957) and Viviana (1972). The New York novels and performance text are: Black Artemis' Picture Me Rollin' (2005), Angie Cruz's Soledad (2003) and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints (2002) and Josefina Báez's Dominicanish (2000). The ways the women characters, figures, images and voices align to subvert gendered delineations as well as the stifling cultural and colonial imprints on their bodies and their selves in Curaçao and New York are central to the decolonizing project explored here.
3. Novels of decolonization in modernity: Malambo, Um defeito de cor, and Fe en disfraz
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Souza Hogan,Maria Leda (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 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.
4. The Afro Colombian studies course: a possibility of decolonializing language in the dry Colombian Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Villa,Ernell (Author) and Villa,Wilmer (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2011
- Published:
- Colombia: Departamento de Investigaciones-DIUC, Bogota Colombia
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Nomadas
- Journal Title Details:
- 34 : 77-91
- Notes:
- The dry Caribbean is a place in Colombia where some black communities have lived since decolonization. The text tackles the pedagogical sense of the Catedra de Estudios Afrocolombianos. The historical, territorial, juridical, educative, and organizational contextualization is followed by the emphasis in the necessity of creating a cultural production policy based on the black communities' life.
5. The Caribbean Novel and the Realization of History in the Era of Decolonization
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Love,Aaron M. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- New York: New York University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 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.