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2. Encre noire: la langue en liberté [entretiens avec Edouard Glissant ... et al.]
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pelletier,Catherine (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1998
- Published:
- [Kourou]: Ibis Rouge Editions
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 179 p, Catherine Le Pelletier discovered in 1993 a show literary that each month new books are presented. This book is the discovery of literature in black, and it brings together the main discussion of this issues.;
3. La double scène de la représentation: oraliture et littérature dans la Caraïbe
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Laroche,Maximilien (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- Sainte-Foy, Québec: GRELCA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 1 microfiche
4. La isla que se repite: el Caribe y la perspectiva posmoderna
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Benitez-Rojo,Antonio (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Published:
- [Hanover N.H. U.S.A.]: Ediciones del Norte
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 350 p., In this second edition of "The Repeating Island," Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benitez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benitez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean--the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics--there emerges an "island" of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benitez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillen, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodriguez Julia.
5. La parole des femmes: essai sur des romancières des Antilles de langue française
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Conde,Maryse (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1979
- Published:
- Paris: L'Harmattan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 136 p
6. Littératures caribéennes comparées
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Maximin,Colette (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996.
- Published:
- Pointe-à-Pitre [Guadeloupe]; Paris: Editions Jasor, Karthala
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 419 p, Explores the commonalities between literatures of the French Caribbean, French Guyana, and Belize, tracing aspects of the content and narrative structures of various Caribbean works back to African and European folklore and traditions, which were passed on to, and influenced in their turn, by the cultures of the Americas. Includes an index of works cited and a selective bibliography.;
7. The repeating island: the Caribbean and the postmodern perspective
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Benitez-Rojo,Antonio (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Durham N.C.: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 350 p
8. Tree of life
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Conde,Maryse (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- New York: Ballantine Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 371 p., The story of a Caribbean family whose history is as much their own as it is their native island's. When the narrator's forebear, Albert Louis, decides to go to Panama to make his fortune building the canal rather than stay at home cutting sugar like all his fellow blacks, he begins the ascendancy of the Louis family--a family that over the years will be divided by color (not just black and white but all the shades in between), money, and politics. In Panama, Albert finds money but not a fortune, encounters racial prejudice, learns about Marcus Garvey, and marries a Jamaican who dies giving birth to son Bert. Back home in Guadeloupe, the embittered father prospers in business but is disliked for his meanness and surly disposition. A second marriage follows, and the narrator's grandfather, the ugly but hard-working Jacob, is born. Births and deaths occur at a clip; the dead advise the living in dreams; and characters travel to New York, where more is learned of Garvey and black politics, and to France, where Bert, disowned because of his marriage to a white woman, commits suicide. Then on to Bert's niece, Jacob's daughter, pampered and indulged Th’cla, who moves to France pregnant with the narrator, whom she leaves with a white family. Abandoned by her black lover, Th’cla marries a white doctor, takes a side trip to New York, where she has an affair with a Malcolm X follower; goes to Jamaica, this time with daughter and new lover in tow; and then finally returns to her white husband in Paris, leaving daughter with grandfather and the obligation to tell ``the story of very ordinary people who in their own way had nonetheless made blood flow.'' Vivid writing, and certainly wide-ranging, though sometimes the fast pace leads to skimping on the plot. Still, a very readable story of an unfamiliar territory.