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2. C.L.R. James: asking questions of the past
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Santiago-Valles,W. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race & Class
- Journal Title Details:
- 45(1) : 61
- Notes:
- Discusses C.L.R. James's chronicle of the history of the Haitian revolution of 1843 in his book 'The Black Jacobins.' Contrast between the behavior of the Haitian slaves during the working day and their conversations around the supper fire; Conscious organization of the Caribbean nation; Processes of communication that took place in the midst of conflicts.
3. Gilberto Freyre
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lehmann,David (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Latin American Research Review
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American Research Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 43(1) : 208-218
- Notes:
- Focuses on the book "Casa-grande e senzala," by Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre. In his book, Freyre introduces the idea of Brazilian racial democracy (democracia racial) and analyzes the views of black people in Brazil. Freyre and his ideas were said to be controversial and racist and many believed that these ideas created myths within society
4. Rhys's Pieces: Unhomeliness as Arbiter of Caribbean Creolization
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Murdoch,Adlai H. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Callaloo
- Journal Title Details:
- 26(1) : 252-272
- Notes:
- "Any attempt to trace the many resonances that historically have been attached to the creole figure in Caribbean literature and culture will be inflected by the long and pervading presence of colonialism in the region and its attendant corollary of hierarchical social separation and difference based on perceptions of race. Indeed, the ambivalent desire and subjective misrecognition that lay at the heart of historical writing about colonialism and racism have tended to frame the issues of monstrosity and exclusion that produced the creole as part and parcel of wider colonial discourses. Thus, the shifting and increasingly unstable inscription of the creole figure echoes, in a certain sense, certain critical ambiguities of politics and temporality that color the colonial encounter and its aftermath. Specifically, in the contemporary English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the multiplicity, displacement, and creative instability that undergird creole-driven theories of postcolonial performance have supplanted this category's suspect beginnings as colonialism's model for the fearfully unnameable and unplaceable hybrid monstrosity, and now increasingly shape the substance of much of the artistic and creative work emerging from the region." --The Author