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2. Common places : the poetics of African Atlantic postromantics
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Oakley,Seanna Sumalee (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Amsterdam: Rodopi
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 317 p., While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the "commonplace" to recast our sense of the politics of such literature. Her analysis of commonplace poetics reveals that postcolonial poetic and political moods and aspirations are far more complex than has been admitted. African Atlantic writers summon the utopian potential of Romanticism, which had been stricken by Anglo-European exclusiveness and racial entitlement, and project it as an attain.
3. Diáspora negra no Brasil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Heywood,Linda M. (Author) and Faustino,Oswaldo (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- São Paulo: Editora Contexto
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Portuguese translation of Linda Heywood, Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora selections (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)., 222 p., Studies the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the Americas since the Atlantic slave trade. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions as they interacted with Portuguese slave traders up to 1800, then follows Central Africans through all the regions where they were taken as slaves and recaptives.