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    1. Breath, eyes, memory

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Danticat,Edwidge (Author) and New York (Series Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1995
    Published:
    Vintage Books
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her., 234 p

    2. Coconut mon

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Milstein,Linda Breiner (Author) and Taylor,Cheryl Munro (Illustrator)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1995
    Published:
    New York: Tambourine Books
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    32 p., A counting and story book set in the Caribbean. Fishermen, market ladies, and babies alike all love coconut. Count down from ten to one with the Coconut Mon as he winds his way around the island.

    3. Colour of forgetting

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Collins,Merle (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1995-01-01
    Published:
    London: Virago Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    214 p., "Collins's novel is a tribute to the Afro-Caribbean oral tradition, a vanishing landscape as well as an exploration in "life sense." Characters such as Carib, Mamag, and Willive struggle against forgetting the historical ties that have implications for the present. In the end Collins would have us understand that the humanity of a people, the survival of a people, rests with its young, the young's willful desire to present to its community what the textbooks do not: the history of ordinary people." --Adele S. Newson, Florida International University.

    4. The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Danow,David K. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1995
    Published:
    Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky.
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    183 P., "Demonstrating how Latin American magical realism and Holocaust literature reflect and refract in literary form the carnivalesque spirit of inversion, intensification of experience, and hallucinatory strangeness. Drawing on the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Carl Jung, James Frazer, and others, Danow is able to suggest a striking and subtle connection between two genres that on the surface would appear to have little in common." --Lynn Gelfand, Folklore Forum 29:1 (1998), p. 130.