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    Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Subject Term African diaspora Subject Term Fiction Journal Title ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

    1. Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): Maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    crump,helen j. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Minnesota: University of Minnesota
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    220 p., Employs a black feminist diaspora literary lens to identify, define, trace, and speak to the African Diaspora as it functions in black women's diaspora fiction and informs our understanding of black women's diaspora identity. Considers three authors and novels by women of, in, and across the African Diaspora. The study centers on Sandra Jackson-Opoku's The River Where Blood Is Born as a primary site of analysis of diaspora formation and theorization, Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon and Maryse Condé's Desirada as comparative textual and theoretical sites.

    2. Passages to (Be) Longing: Contemporary Black Novels of Diaspora and Dislocation

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Valkeakari,Tuire Maritta (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Connecticut: Yale University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    369 p., Looks at contemporary novels of the anglophone African diaspora through the lens of movement, migration, and dislocation, with particular attention to how the selected authors depict black diasporic identity formation, and how they contribute to it through their writings. Thematically, this dissertation examines literary representations of the social, cultural, and psychological consequences that involuntary and voluntary migrations have had for black communities and individuals in North America, the Caribbean, and Britain. It explores the juncture of history, memory, geography, and diasporic identity, as represented by eight contemporary novelists of African and African-Caribbean descent: Charles Johnson ( Middle Passage ), Lawrence Hill ( The Book of Negroes ), Toni Morrison (Sula and Tar Baby ), George Lamming (The Emigrants ), Caryl Phillips (The Final Passage, A State of Independence, and Crossing the River ), Andrea Levy (Small Island ), Cecil Foster (Sleep on, Beloved ), and Edwidge Danticat ( Breath, Eyes, Memory ).

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