African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
233 p., Examines China's rise, its role in the greater China region, and its influence in other regions of the world. Includes William Vlcek's "Development--great and small: "Greater China," small Caribbean islands and offshore finance."
Yovanovich,Gordana (Editor) and Huras,Amy (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
316 p., Takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, this book focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Includes Jessica Franklin's "Afro-Brazilian women's identities and activism : national and transnational discourse," Adrian Smith's "Legal creolization, 'permanent exceptionalism,' and Caribbean sojourners truths" and Janelle Joseph's "The transculturation of capoeira : Brazilian, Canadian, and Caribbean interpretations of an Afro-Brazilian martial art."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
301 p., Brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Includes Sabine Wilke's "South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics : Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing" and Bonnie Roos' "Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros : a sea change of stories in visible silence."
