African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Reflects the traumatic history of imperialism and its political, economic, and cultural manifestations ranging from the Negritude literary movement to post-independence novelists. There is also a political engagement aroused by independence and early statehood
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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179 p, Catherine Le Pelletier discovered in 1993 a show literary that each month new books are presented. This book is the discovery of literature in black, and it brings together the main discussion of this issues.;
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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328 p, Content: The scope and limits of West Indian historiography -- The novel as history: Edgar Mittelholzer and V.S. Reid -- History as loss: determinism as vision and form in V.S. Naipaul -- Lamming and the mythic imagination: meaning and dimensions of freedom -- Beyond realism: Wilson Harris and the immateriality of freedom -- Transcending linear time: history and style in Derek Walcott's poetry -- From myth to dialectic: history in Derek Walcott's drama -- Edward Brathwaite and submerged history: the aesthetics of renaissance -- Configurations of history in the writing of West Indian women -- Africa in the historical imagination of the West Indian writer.
