Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma : University of the Netherlands Antilles
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Incorporates invited papers as well as presentations made to the 13th annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Culture Conference (aka the 'Islands in Between' Conference) which was held at the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana from 4 to 6 November 2011., 355 p., A collection of articles that presents a critical perspective on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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509 p., Presents a diverse, richly textured picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and offers the most comprehensive explanation of how African lives became entangled with the creation of the modern world. Includes Emmanuel Kofi Agorsah's "Scars of brutality : archaeology of the Maroons in the Caribbean."
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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343 p., Explores issues associated with Caribbean women, music, and the global community. By placing the Caribbean within the global community, these essays contribute to the discussion of diasporic musicians and elucidate the relationships between the Caribbean and the larger world. Emphasis is on the remarkable extent of the Caribbean’s influence, especially in the last 50 years.
Blouin,Francis X. (Author) and Rosenberg,William G. (Author)
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Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2006
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Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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502 p, Essays exploring the importance of archives as artifacts of culture As sites of documentary preservation rooted in various national and social contexts, archives help define for individuals, communities, and states what is both knowable and known about their pasts. Includes Laurent Dubois' "Maroons in the archives: the uses of the past in the French Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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268 p., In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives accessible to both scholars and students. Includes Carolyn Cooper's
"Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting," Paula C. Barnes "Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition," and Erna Brodber's "Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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259 p, Includes Veronica Brady's "Arnold apple's son of Guyana. autobiography or fiction?," Sheila Roberts' "V.S. Naipaul's identity in fact and fiction," etc.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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229 p., Brings together a contemporary selection in English from some of the key writers now living in Canada, the US, and the UK, as well as various countries of the Caribbean. Reflecting a changing world, and admitting diverse cultural influences and generational differences, these writers maintain a distinct Caribbean-ness in their acute historical awareness and in the cadences and rhythms of their language.
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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251 p., Showcases recent works that reflect a variety of disciplines, styles and topics that include considering Indo-Caribbean women in creative, artistic and performance text, historical and anthropological analyses, intersection with their "others" in the Caribbean and its diaspora, narratives of self, healing and spiritual growth, and roles in religion and cultural activities.
Whitten,Norman E., Jr. (Editor) and Torres,Arlene (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
unknown
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Bloomington.: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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2 vols., If we are to understand the meanings of "blackness" in the African diaspora and elsewhere, we must critically examine the paradigms that have emerged over the past five centuries out of Euro-American racism and black liberation. So argue the editors of these seminal volumes that add immeasurably to our understanding of black experiences in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean while establishing new research directions.
