African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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224 p., Marronage - the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories - had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World. As fictional personae the maroons continue to weave in and out of oral and literary tales as central and ancient characters of Jamaica's heritage. Identifies the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature and focuses on its essential themes and strategies of discourse for conveying these themes.
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247 p, Set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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197 p, In Miami, Lieutenant Gutierrez investigates gruesome, ceremonial killings by Santeria, an Afro-Caribbean cult. To solve the case he joins forces with a student who is writing a thesis on the subject. By the author of The Cuban-American Experience.
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228 p, The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy.;
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32 p., Jamaica has many adventures around her island home, as she dances in the marketplace to the beat of Miss Lee Brown's drums and chases the baby chick who escapes from her father, in an infectious rhymed verse inspired by the rhythms of reggae music.
