DeLoughrey,Elizabeth M. (Author), Gosson,Renee K. (Author), and Handley,George B. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
303 p, Contents: Sugar and the environment in Cuba / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Isla incognita / Derek Walcott -- Shaping the environment : sugar plantation, or life after identured labor / Cyril Dabydeen -- Coffee and colonialism in Julia Alvarez's A cafecito story / Trenton Hickman -- Subjection and resistance in the transformation of Guyana's mytho-colonial landscape / Shona N. Jackson -- A long bilingual conversation concerning paradise lost : landscapes in Haitian art / LeGrace Benson -- "Caribbean genesis" : language, gardens, worlds (Jamaica Kincaid, Derek Walcott, Édouard Glissant) / Jana Evans Braziel -- "The argument of the outboard motor" : an interview with Derek Walcott / George B. Handley -- Cultural and environmental assimilation in Martinique : an interview with Raphaël Confiant / Renée K. Gosson -- Moving the Caribbean landscape : Cereus blooms at night as a re-imagination of the Caribbean environment / Isabel Hoving -- "Rosebud is my mama, stanfaste is my papa" : hybrid landscapes and sexualities in Surinamese oral literature / Natasha Tinsley -- "He of the trees" : nature, environment, and Creole religiosities in Caribbean literature / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- "Man fitting the landscape" : nature, culture, and colonialism / Helen Tiffin -- Flashbacks of an orchid : rhizomatic narration in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Heidi Bojsen -- Landscapes, narratives, and tropical nature : Creole modernity in Suriname / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger -- The uses of landscape : ecocriticism and Martinican cultural theory / Eric Prieto -- From living nature to borderless culture in Wilson Harris's work / Hena Maes-Jelinek -- Epilogue : Theatre of the arts / Wilson Harris
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Synopsis This biography of the writer and politician, recreates Allfrey's life against the background of 20th-century Caribbean political and literary history - from the decline of the planter class, the rise of party politics and the efforts to join the West Indies into a federation in the 1960s and 1970s. ;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
223 p, Ileana Rodriguez's House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women offers an insightful look into the role the feminine has played in the constructions of nation and nationalism in critical moments of Latin American history. Although feminism is at the center of the study, it is always predicated by concerns of ethnicity and social class. (BNET);
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
245 p, Contents: The politics of postcolonial nationalist literature / The nation as problem and possibility / Caribbean space: Lamming, Naipaul, and federation / The novel after the nation: Nigeria after Biafra / The persistence of the nation: literature and criticism in Canada / National culture and globalization
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
193 p., Studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French colonies in 1946.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
762 p., A biography of the novelist Jean Rhys, author of Quartet and Wide Sargasso Sea, who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. Jean Rhys's childhood, her momentous first love affair, her three marriages, the disasters which befell her husbands, her drinking and its consequences: all are shown with unsparing clarity.
