African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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237 p., A close reading of three works by female authors. Presents a trajectory, covering different epochs from post emancipation, independence, and the contemporary, of their portrayal of subalterns, the specific strategies they use to reveal their protagonists' resistance, growth and self-affirmation.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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309 p., Drawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban and South Floridian Santería, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness, this book reemplaces deep-southern texts within the counterclockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity. Includes "Down to the Mire : Travels, Shouts & Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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309 p., Offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history, and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. Draws from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Cuban and South Floridian Santería,and Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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104 p., She Sex could rightly be regarded as a trailblazing, transformative work, concerned with showcasing the innermost erotic stories of Caribbean Women.