African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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213 p., One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomble were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its religious objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1001 p, Contents include: TELL MY HORSE -- Part 1. Jamaica -- The rooster’s nest -- Curry goat -- Hunting a wild hog -- Night song after death -- Women in the Caribbean -- Part 2. Politics and personalities of Haiti -- Rebirth of a nation -- The next hundred years -- The black Joan of Arc -- Death of Leconte -- Part 3. Voodoo in Haiti -- Voodoo and the voodoo gods -- The Isle of La Gonave -- Archahaie and what it means -- Zombies -- Sect rouge -- Parlay cheval ou (Tell my horse) -- Graveyard dirt and other poisons -- Doctor Reser -- God and the Pintards -- Songs of worship to voodoo gods: Maitresse Ersulie ; Férailke ; Rada ; Janvalo (Jean Valdo) -- Saint Jacques ; Petro ; Ibo ; Damballa ; Ogoun ; Salongo ; Loco ; Mambo Isan ; Dambala ; Agoë (Agoué te royo) ; Sobo ; Ogoun -- Miscellaneous songs: Sect rouge ; Chant beginning all rada ceremonies ; La mystérieuse méringue / A.L. Duroseau ; Etonnement, méringue caractéristique / A. Herandez ; Bonne humeur, méringue Haitïenne / Arthur L. Duroseau ; Olga, méringue par / Arthur Lyncíe Duroseau ; Chanson de Calicot ; La douceur --
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270 p., Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to US imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. Drawing on archival sources in both countries, the author traces four encounters between Afro-Cubans and African Americans.
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.;
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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.
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202 p, Contents: The French West Indies à l'heure de l'Europe : an overview /; Richard D.E. Burton,; Fred Reno --; Constitutional and political change in the French Caribbean /; Helen Hintjens --; Politics and society in Martinique /; Fred Reno --; Guadeloupean consensus /; Jean-Paul Eluther --; Society, culture and politics in French Guiana /; Bridget Jones,; Elie Stephenson --; Dialectics of descent and phenotypes in racial classification in Martinique /; Michel Giraud --; The Declaration of the Treaty of Maastricht on the ultra-peripheral regions of the Community : an assessment /; Emmanuel Jos --; The French Antilles and the wider Caribbean /; Maurice Burac --; West Indians in France /; Alain Anselin --; Women from Guadeloupe and Martinique /; Arlette Gautier --; The idea of difference in contemporary French West Indian thought : Négritude, Antillanité, Créolité /; Richard D.E. Burton --; French West Indian writing since 1970 /; Beverley Ormerod
Biddle,Arthur W. (Author) and Bien,Gloria (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
845 p, Includes Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"; George Lamming's "A wedding in spring"; Paule Marshall's "from The chosen place, the timeless people"; Edward Kamau Brathwaite's "Red rising" and "Xango"; Jean Rhys' "The day they burned the books"; Simone Schwarz-Bart's "from The bridge of beyond"; Grace Nichols' "Wherever I hang" and "Tropical death"; Michelle Cliff's "If I could write this in fire, I would write this in fire"; Lorna Goodison's "The mulatta and the minotaur," "Lullaby for Jean Rhys," "Nanny" and "For my mother (may I inherit half her strength)"; Aimé Césaire's "from Return to my native land"; Joseph Zobel's "The gift"; Derek Walcott's' "Sea grapes," "The swamp," and "The castaway"; V.S. Naipaul's "from The mystic masseur"; and /Earl Lovelace's "from The dragon can't dance"
