African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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274 p., Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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149 p., Examines Marshall's use of the trope of travel within and between the United States and the Caribbean to critique ideologies of development, tourism, and globalization as neo-imperial. This examination of travel in Marshall's To Da-Duh, In Memoriam; The Chosen Place, The Timeless People; Praisesong for the Widow; and Daughters exposes the asymmetrical structures of power that exist between the two regions.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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261 p, "Énorme, anormal, difforme ou sinueux, le thème baroque se développe au mépris des limites, cadres de l'image, marges de la page, frontières des genres ou des tonalités. N'y aurait-il pas, dès lors, une affinité entre le baroque et la mise en question de la loi? Entre une liberté merveilleuse et l'angoisse du vide, le baroque mène ainsi la folle sarabande de l'écriture et de la musique. L'écrivain n'est-il pas à l'image de ses personnages livre des pouvoirs de l'imaginaire, se livrant à la transgression joyeuse, et cependant inquiet de découvrir une 'loi symbolique', ou une 'loi d'expression', dans le langage d'Édouard Glissant" (Amazon);
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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275 p., Explores the complicated post-colonial infrastructure of Caribbean society and life as an African American through the work of Erna Brodber. Brodber's novels "Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home," "MYAL," and "Louisiana" all explore various facets of the Caribbean and African American experiences. The author traces nuances of the Caribbean psyche, the importance of matriarchs, traditional slave dances, obeahs, Santeria and other African-based religious expressions, as well as politics and history.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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371 p, Contents: The problem of the problem of form -- Possession as metaphor : Lamming's Season of adventure -- The space between negations -- Assassins of the voice : Martin Carter's Poems of affinity, 1978-1980 -- Three for V -- The shape of that hurt : an introduction to Voiceprint -- Megalleons of light : Edward Brathwaite's Sun poem -- Brathwaite with a dash of brown :crit, the writer and the written life -- The rehumanization of history : regeneration of spirit, apocalypse and revolution in Brathwaite's The arrivants and X/Self -- Trophy and catastrophe : Guiyana Prize feature address -- Apocalypso and the Soca fires of 1990.
