Adler,Joyce Sparer (Author), Adler,Irving (Author), and Jagan,Janet (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
106 p, Contents: Wilson Harris : the ideal of unity -- The art of Wilson Harris -- Tumatumari and the imagination of Wilson Harris -- Wilson Harris and twentieth-century man -- Melville and Harris : poetic imaginations related in their response to the modern world -- Wilson Harris's The womb of space : the cross-cultural imagination -- The evolution of female figures and imagery in Wilson Harris's novels -- Wilson Harris's cross-cultural dialogue with Melville -- Wilson Harris : an introduction
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
Graziosi,Barbara (Author) and Greenwood,Emily (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
New York, NY: Oxford University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
322 p, The essays stem from a conference held in Durham, England, July 20-23, 2004. Includes Gregson Davis' "'Homecomings without home': representations of (post)colonial nostos (homecoming) in the lyric of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott"
"Although Annie John is commonly categorized as primarily Caribbean (a precursor to Kincaid’s “American” sequel, Lucy [1990]), my proposed comparison elucidates the Western and transnational leanings of this foundational “Caribbean” work and the ways in which it implicitly expands on Morrison’s representations of female autonomy and visual culture." --The Author
