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2. Framing the word: gender and genre in Caribbean women’s writing
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anim-Addo,Joan (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- London; Concord, MA, USA: Whiting and Birch, Paul and Co., Publishers’ Consortium
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 260 p, Contents: Framing the word: Caribbean women’s writing / Merle Collins -- En-gendering spaces: the poetry of Marlene Nourbese Philip and Pamela Mordecai / Elaine Savory -- Writing for resistance: nationalism and narratives of liberation / Alison Donnell -- Jamaica Kincaid’s prismatic self and the decolonisation of language and thought / Giovanna Covi -- Figures of silence and orality in the poetry of M. Nourbese Philip / David Marriott -- Saint Lucien Lawòz and Lamagwit songs within the Caribbean and African tradition / Morgan Dalphinis -- Keeping tradition alive / Jean Buffong -- New encounters: availability, acceptability and accessibility of new literature from Caribbean women / Susanna Steele and Joan Anim-Addo in conversation -- Children should be seen and spoken to: or writing for and about children / Thelma Perkins -- ’A world of Caribbean romance’: reformulating the legend of love or ’can a caress be culturally specific?’ / Jane Bryce -- Houses and homes: Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s riddle and Beryl Gilroy’s Frangipani house / Mary Condé -- Women writers in twentieth century Cuba: an eight-point survey / Catherine Davies -- Patterns of resistance in Afro-Cuban women’s writing: Nancy Morejón’s ’Amo a mi amo’ / Conrad James -- Encoding the voice: Caribbean women’s writing and Creole / Susanne Mühleisen -- Surinam women writers and issues of translation / Petronella Breinburg -- Frangipani house / Beryl Gilroy -- ’One of the most beautiful islands in the world and one of the unluckiest’: Jean Rhys and Dominican national identity / Thorunn Lonsdale -- Audacity and outcome: writing African-Caribbean womanhood / Joan Anim-Addo -- Coming out of repression: Lakshmi Persaud’s Butterfly in the wind / Kenneth Ramchand.;
3. Littératures caribéennes comparées
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Maximin,Colette (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996.
- Published:
- Pointe-à-Pitre [Guadeloupe]; Paris: Editions Jasor, Karthala
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 419 p, Explores the commonalities between literatures of the French Caribbean, French Guyana, and Belize, tracing aspects of the content and narrative structures of various Caribbean works back to African and European folklore and traditions, which were passed on to, and influenced in their turn, by the cultures of the Americas. Includes an index of works cited and a selective bibliography.;
4. Nationalism and identity: culture and the imagination in a Caribbean diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Harney,Stefano (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 216 p, Contents: 1. Beyond Nationalism: Literary Nation-building in the Work of Earl Lovelace and Michael Anthony -- 2. Men Go Have Respect For All O' We: Valerie Belgrave's Invention of Trinidad -- 3. Willi Chen and Carnival Nationalism in Trinidad -- 4. Samuel Selvon and the Chronopolitics of a Diasporic Nationalism -- 5. Neil Bissoondath and Migrant Liberation from the Nation -- 6. V.S. Naipaul and the Pitfalls of Nationalism -- 7. C.L.R. James and Egalitarian Nationalism in the Caribbean -- Conclusion: Mud Mas: Playing Identity.
5. Negro Question
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- James,C. L. R. (Author) and McLemee,Scott (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 154 p
6. Nicolas Guillen: Sugar Mill and Poetry
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Benitez-Rojo,Antonio (Author), Maraniss,James E. (Author), and James E. Maraniss (Translator)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Durham: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 416 p, Contents: Introduction: the repeating island: From Columbus's machine to the sugar-making machine. From the apocalypse to chaos. From rhythm to polyrhythm. From literature to carnival -- SOCIETY. From the plantation to the Plantation: Hispaniola: the first plantations. The emergence of creole culture. Contraband, repression, and consequences. The island creole and the mainland creole. The Plantation and the Africanization of culture. The Plantation: Sociocultural regularities -- THE WRITER: Bartolome de Las Casas: between fiction and the inferno. Las Casas: Historian or fabulist? Las Casas and slavery. The plague of ants and the uncanny. The piedra soliman: Sugar, genitalia, writing. Derivations from the "Las Casas case" Nicoltis Guillen: sugar mill andpoetry. From Los ingenios to La zafra. From the libido to the superego. The Communist poet. The controversial poet. The subversive poet. The philosophical poet. Fernando Ortiz: the Caribbean and postmodernity ISO:The Contrapunteo as a postmodern text. Between voodoo and ideology. A danceable language. Knowledge in flight. Carpentier and Harris: explorers of El Dorado. The voyage there. The Path of Words. The trip to El Dorado. Concerning the three voyagers -- THE BOOK: Los panmanes) or the memory of the skin. The puzzle's next-to-last piece. Displacement toward myth. The "other" Caribbean city. Violence, folklore, and the Caribbean novel. Viaje a la semilla) or the text as spectacle. A canon called the crab. We open the door to the enchanted house. We close the door to the enchanted house. All quiet on the western front. Noise. Directions for reading the black hole. Nino Aviles) or history's libido. Nueva Venecia, an onion. Of palenques and cimarrones. The temptations of Fray Agustin -- THE PARADOX: Naming the Father, naming the Mother. The Father's ghost. The Mother's song. The unfinished matricide. Private reflections on Garcia Marquez's Erendira. The captive maiden. The pregnant woman. The Caribbean Persephone. The carnivalesque whore. Carnival. The system's deepest layer: Guillen's "Sensemaya" The intermediate layer: Walcott's Drums and Colours. The outer layer: Carpentier's Concierto barroco. Carnival at last
7. Postcolonial subjects: francophone women writers
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Green,Mary Jean Matthews (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 359 p, Includes Kitzie McKinney's "Memory, Voice, and Metaphor in the Works of Simone Schwartz-Bart," Joan Dayan's "Erzulie: A Women's History of Haiti?," and Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi's "Narrative "je(ux)" in Kamouraska by Anne Hebert and Juletane by Miriam Warner-Vieyra"
8. The repeating island: the Caribbean and the postmodern perspective
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Benitez-Rojo,Antonio (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Durham N.C.: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 350 p