Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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168 p., Provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica's dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the dancehall and between the dancehall and the wider Jamaican society.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Originally published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983., 375 p, Probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region’s unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Covers the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region’s characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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131 p, Contents: Making West Indian literature -- Kamau Brathwaite -- Locating self : Dennis Scott interviewed -- Dennis Scott : a remembrance -- Interrogating irony : Mervyn Morris interviewed -- The all Jamaica library -- Jane's career and Susan Proudleigh -- Voices under the window -- Validating lives : Trevor Rhone interviewed -- Miss Lou, some heirs and successors -- In search of justice : Linton Kwesi Johnson interviewed -- Building awareness : Mikey Smith interviewed -- Orator Baugh -- Sounds and sense : West Indian poetry -- It was the singing -- Sir Vidia and the prize.
La Habana, Cuba: Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Cultura
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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477 p, Examines the musical traditions of the African population in Cuba, including rhythmic and melodic features, instrumentation, and vocal characteristics.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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238 p., Study of the relations between Haiti and black America from the colonial period to the present, the author shows how historical ties between these two communities of the African diaspora have affected their respective histories, cultures and community lives. R
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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231 p, Contents: Postcolonial modernism/modernist postcolonialism --; "Not borrowers, but bearers of a tradition" --; Listening to Eliot : poetic revolution and common speech --; Public poets
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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421 p, Contents: Theorizing Caribbean masculinities: Masculinities in transition : gender and the global problematique / Keith Nurse. Unmasking masculinity and deconstructing patriarchy : problems and possibilities within feminist epistemology / Patricia Mohammed. Power games and totalitarian masculinity in the Dominican Republic / E. Antonio de Moya -- Gender socialization, educational performance and peer group relations: Boys of the empire : elite education and the construction of hegemonic masculinity in Barbados, 1875-1920 / Aviston D. Downes. Male privileging and male "academic underperformance" in Jamaica / Mark Figueroa. Masculinities, myths and educational underachievement : Jamaica, Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines / Odette Parry. History, (re)memory, testimony and biomythography : charting a buller man's Trinidadian past / Wesley E.A. Crichlow -- Class, ethnicity, nation and notions of masculinity: Black masculinity in Caribbean slavery / Hilary Beckles. Caribbean masculinity at the fin de siècle / Linden Lewis. Globalization, migration and the shaping of masculinity in Belize / Linda M. Matthei and David A. Smith -- Popular culture and literary images of masculinity and femininity: Under women's eyes : literary constructs of Afro-Caribbean masculinity / Paula Morgan. Calling all dragons : the crumbling of Caribbean masculinity / Kenneth Ramchand. I Lawa : the construction of masculinity in Trinidad and Tobago calypso / Gordon Rohlehr. Uniform and weapon / Christopher Cozier
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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260 p, Contents: "Under the hog plum tree": literary claims for citizenship in nineteenth-century Trinidad -- The accidental modernist : Thomas MacDermot and Jamaican literature -- Herbert's career : H.G. de Lisser and the business of national literature -- The new primitivism : gender and nation in McKay's internationalism -- The realpolitik of yard fiction : Trinidad's Beacon group -- The pitfalls of feminist nationalism and the career of Una Marson -- "Fishy waters" : Jean Rhys and West Indian writing before 1940.
