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2. Afro-Mexican constructions of diaspora, gender, identity and nation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ramsay,Paulette (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2016-01-01
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 204 p., Examines cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico, to challenge the selective and Euro-centric view of Mexican identity in the discourse about racial and ethnic homogeneity and the existence of black people in the country, as well as assumptions and stereotypes about gender and sexuality.
3. Aimé Césaire : le nègre universel
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alliot,David (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Gollion: Infolio
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 255 p.
4. An invincible summer: female diasporan authors
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jackson,Tommie (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 218 p, Contents: Origins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- Diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- Success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- Exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition;
5. Black Writers in French: A literary History of Negritude
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kesteloot,Lilyan (Author) and Ellen Conroy Kennedy (Translator)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1974
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Translation of Les écrivains noirs de langue française. Originally presented as the author's thesis, Brussels, 1961., 401 p, According to Kesteloot, the three fathers of négritude were Léon Damas (French Guiana), Léopold Senghor (Senegal) and Aimé Césaire (Martinique), who met in Paris in the 1930s and started the movement. Senghor defined negritude as: “the cultural patrimony, the values, and above all the spirit of Negro African civilization.”
6. Black literature criticism
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Krstovic,Jelena O. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Detroit, MI: Gale
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 3 vols.
- Notes:
- 1499 p., Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included. Includes foreword by Howard Dodson.; vol. 1. Achebe-Dumas -- vol. 2. Ellison-Lorde -- vol. 3. Mackey-Zobel.;
7. Black writers and the Hispanic canon
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jackson,Richard L. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- Published:
- New York London: Twayne Publishers Prentice Hall International
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- xix
- Notes:
- 139 p, Contains: The complexity of complexion: reading and understanding Black Hispanic writing -- Biography and Black autobiography: Black Hispanic writers and the autobiographical statement -- Slavery and the pivotal Afro-Cubans: Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiografía, Nicolás Guillén's El diario que a diario, and Nancy Morejón's "Mujer negra" -- Miscegenation and personal choice in Venezuela: message and mestizaje in Juan Pablo Sojo's Nochebuena negra -- Ambiguity, locura, and Black ambition in two Afro-Ecuadorian novels: Adalberto Ortiz's Juyungo and Nelson Estupiñán Bass's El último río -- Epic, civic, and moral leadership: Manuel Zapata Olivella's Chambacú, coarral de negros; Changó, el gran putas; and Levántate mulato -- Black poetry and the model self: Pilar Barrios's Piel negra and Gerardo Maloney's Juego vivo -- Two black Central American novelists of antillano origin: race, nationalism, and the mirror image in Cubena's Los nietos de Felicidad Dolores and Quince Duncan's Los cuatro espejos -- Dominican blackness: Blas Jiménez's Caribe africano en despertar and Norberto James's Sobre de la marcha -- Passing the torch: Nicomedes Santa Cruz's Ritmos negros del Perú and Antonio Acosta Márquez's Yo pienso aquí doned...estoy -- From authenticity to "authentic space": the emergence, challenge, and validity of Black Hispanic literature.
8. Black writers in Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jackson,Richard L. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1979
- Published:
- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- xiii
- Notes:
- 224 p, Contains: Introduction: The problems of literary Blackness in Latin America -- pt. 1. Early literature (1821-1921): In the beginning: oral literature and the "true Black experience" -- Slave poetry and slave narrative: Juan Francisco Manzano and Black autobiography -- Slave societies and the free Black writer: José Manuel Valdés and "Plácido" -- From antislavery to antiracism: Martín Morúa Delgado, Black novelist, politician, and critic of postabolitionist Cuba -- Cultural nationalism and the emergence of literary Blackness in Colombia: the originality of Candelario Obeso -- The Black swan: Gaspar Octavio Hernández, Panama's Black modernist poet -- pt. 2. Major period (1922-49): The turning point: the Blackening of Nicolás Guillén and the impact of his Motivos de son -- The Black writer, the Black press, and the Black Diaspora in Uruguay -- Juan Pablo Sojo and the Black novel in Venezuela -- Adalberto Ortiz and his Black Ecuadorian classic -- Literary Blackness in Colombia: the novels of Arnoldo Palacios -- pt. 3. Contemporary authors (1950- ): Literary Blackness in Colombia: the ideological development of Manuel Zapata Olivella -- Literary Blackness and Third Worldism in recent Ecuadorian fiction: the novels of Nelson Estupiñán Bass -- Folk forms and formal literature: revolution and the Black poet-singer in Ecuador, Peru, and Cuba -- Return to the origins: the Afro-Costa Rican literature of Quince Duncan -- Ebe Yiye -"the future will be better": an update on Panama from Black Cubena -- Conclusion: Prospects for a Black aesthetic in Latin America.
9. Cadernos negros: movimento literário afro-brasileiro contemporâneo (Black notebooks : contemporary Afro-Brazilian literary movement)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Afolabi,Niyi (Editor), Barbosa,Marcio (Editor), Ribeiro,Esmeralda (Editor), and Niyi Afolabi (Translator)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 280 p.
10. Carnival and national identity in the poetry of Afrocubanismo
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anderson,Thomas F. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 341 p., Examines the long-running debate between the proponents of Afro-Cuban cultural manifestations and the predominantly white Cuban intelligentsia who viewed these traditions as "backward" and counter to the interests of the young Republic. Includes analyses of the work of Felipe Pichardo Moya, Alejo Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, Emilio Ballagas, José Zacarías Tallet, Felix B. Caignet, Marcelino Arozarena, and Alfonso Camín.
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