270 p., Juxtaposes the novels written by Merle Collins (Grenada) and Lakshmi Persaud (Trinidad and Tobago), which are classified as Caribbean-based novels in which the characters do not leave the island of their birth until they have attained womanhood, against those of Edwidge Danticat (Haiti) and Paule Marshall (Barbados) which depict their protagonists' emotional and geographical displacement between the United States and the Caribbean.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Revision of thesis (Ph. D.--Johns Hopkins University, 1974), originally presented under title: Slave resistance and social control in Antiqua, 1700-1763., 338 P., Essentially a history of the Caribbean sugar societies as manifested on one small island from 1670 to 1763. In 1736, the British Caribbean island of Antigua uncovered a plot among its slave population to destroy the white power structure. Using extensive quotations from the governmental investigation of the plot, Gaspar attempts a full examination of all aspects of a slave society and of the intertwined relationships of masters and servants.
