African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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183 p, "Prose fiction, mainly novels, written by people who were born or who grew up in the West Indies. The literary works to be approached usually have a West Indian setting. The books have all been written in the twentieth century." (Publisher)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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251 p., Chapters: African and Afro-Cuban factors in the structure of Lydia Cabrera's black short stories -- The characters : gods, animals, humans, supernatural beings and objects -- The theme of the waters.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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230 p, Book Description: There has been an explosion of interest in Francophone studies, as postcolonial and diaspora literatures more generally have gained recognition both within and outside the academy. Identity, culture and history as well as issues relating to class, race, and colonialism, and the literary production itself have always been central to Caribbean Francophone culture and are matters currently of hot debate. From the growth of the negritude movement, principally associated with poetry, through to the rise of the novel, contributors to this book explore the theoretical, political and philosophical debates that have informed, and continue to inform, the rich and varied tradition of Caribbean Francophone literature. In recent years, the number of Francophone Caribbean women writers has increased significantly and experimental writing has featured more prominently. Contributors explore these and other trends, mainly in the literatures of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In providing the only available overview of this important literature and in positioning it critically, this book makes an invaluable contribution to students and scholars alike. (www.seekbooks.com.au);
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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310 p., Relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. Examines literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodriguez Milans, Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris.
Berrian,Brenda F. (Author) and Broeck,Aart (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
Washington D.C.: Three Continents Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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360 p., First International Conference on the Women Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, April 198. Lists creative works by 1067 women writers. Arranged into four sections
