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327 p., These 107 tales come from the canefields of the antebellum South, the villages of Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary Philadelphia. They includes stories set down in travelers' reports and plantation journals from the early 19th century, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean.
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148 p, Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean Island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensibility from time to time, but even these experiences instruct her and expand her understanding of life and its shifting reality.Although Annie leaves Antigua at the end of the novel for a new role as a student in England, the hollowness she feels at her departure is balanced by the new self that awaits her as she begins the search for her own identity. A poetic and intensely moving work from the author of At the Bottom of the River.;
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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.
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228 p, Poesía negra en Colombia; Based on the author’s thesis (doctoral--Indiana University) entitled La poesía negra en Colombia a través de la obra de Candelario Obeso.
Connolly,Michael B. (Author) and McDermott,John (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
New York: Praeger
Location:
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355 p, "One of the few scholarly works to seriously examine the economic problems of the region. This volume contains a unique mix of theory, practice, and case studies of the economic practitioners from the Caribbean Basin." (Amazon.com)
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125 p, A novel by Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon. Its publication marked the first literary work focusing on poor, working-class blacks in the beat writer tradition following the enactment of the British Nationality Act 1948.
Conde,Maryse (Author) and Cottenet-Hage,Madeleine (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Paris: Karthala
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
320 p, Contents: introduction / Madeleine Cottenet-Hage -- The gendering of créolité / A. James Arnold -- Codes of law and bodies of color / Joan Dayan -- Métissage, discours masculin et déni de la mère / Françoise Vergès -- Critique afrocentrique de L'éloge de la créolité / Ama Mazama -- Créolité in question : Caliban in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove / Kathleen Balutansky -- La vie scélérate de Maryse Condé : métissage narratif et héritage métis / Marie-Agnès Sourieau -- "Créolité" is/as resistance : Raphaël Confiant's Le nègre et l'amiral / Ronnie Scarfman -- Jouissances carnavalesques : représentations de la sexualité / Thomas Spear -- Lire Chamoiseau / Delphine Perret -- Inscription du créole dans les textes francophones : de la citation à la créolisation / Pascale DeSouza -- Ecrire l'écrivain : créolité et spécularité / Lydie Moudileno -- Itinéraire d'un écrivain guadeloupéen / Ernest Pépin -- Emile Ollivier, romancier haïtien / Leon-François Hoffman -- Améliorer la lisibilité du monde / Emile Ollivier -- La créolité "Haitian style" / Leah D. Hewitt -- Métellus, diasporism and créolité / Hal Wylie -- La poésie insulaire de Saint-John Perse / Régis Antoine -- Maryse Condé, la république des corps / Christophe Lamiot --Ecrire en tant que Noire / Gisèle Pineau -- Reading Testimonio : the sound of Rigoberta's voice / Cora G. Lagos and Kevin Meehan -- Chercher nos vérités / Maryse Condé
Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California
Location:
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160 p, Contents: Race and class in Brazil /; Thomas E. Skidmore --; Race and socioeconomic inequalities in Brazil /; Carlos A. Hasenbalg --; Updating the cost of not being white in Brazil /; Nelson do Valle Silva --; Blacks and the search for power in Brazil /; Pierre-Michel Fontaine --; Brown into Black /; J. Michael Turner --; Blacks and the abertura democrática /; Michael Mitchell --; The unified Black movement /; Lélia Gonzalez --; The African connection and the Afro-Brazilian condition /; Anani Dzidzienyo
