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Synopsis This biography of the writer and politician, recreates Allfrey's life against the background of 20th-century Caribbean political and literary history - from the decline of the planter class, the rise of party politics and the efforts to join the West Indies into a federation in the 1960s and 1970s. ;
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280 p, Quetzalcoatl and the smoking mirror (reflections on originality and tradition) / Wilson Harris -- Beyond a boundary: Magical realism in the Jamaican frame of reference / Erna Brodber -- Of boloms, mirrors, and monkeymen: what's real and what's not in Robert Antoni's Divina Trace / Rhonda Cobham -- Boeli van Leeuwen's The sign of Jonah: eschatology in the Dutch Caribbean / André Lefevere -- Omeros: Walcott and the tradition / John Chioles -- Plantation emblems in the Dutch seventeenth century: Albert Helman's contrastive analysis / Ineke Phaf -- Beyond sites of execution: Haiti and the historical imagination in C.L.R. James and Alejo Carpentier -- In the name of the mother: Lamming and the cultural significance of "mother country" in the decolonization process / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- "A different kind of creature": Caribbean literature, the Cyclops factor and the second poetics of the propter nos / Sylvia Wynter -- The erotics of colonialism in contemporary French West Indian literary culture / A. James Arnold -- Paul Gilroy's slaves, ships, and routes: the middle passage as a metaphor / Joan Dayan -- Creolization and nation building in the Hispanic Caribbean / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Sketching a literature from the French Antilles: from negritude to Créolité / Maryse Condé -- The unity of Caribbean literature: a position / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Realisms of the fictive imagination: outsmarting Sisyphus, amending Eldorado, writing Caribbean / Timothy J. Reiss.;
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223 p, Ileana Rodriguez's House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women offers an insightful look into the role the feminine has played in the constructions of nation and nationalism in critical moments of Latin American history. Although feminism is at the center of the study, it is always predicated by concerns of ethnicity and social class. (BNET);
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1 vol., A demonstration and defense of the continuity and centrality of the Afro-Caribbean consciousness in the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles of the Caribbean peoples. The author uses a variety of disciplines, history, politics, psychoanalysis, to bring a new way of looking at the history of Caribbean literature, from the predominance of the European preoccupation with their Europe in the 19th century, to the focus of early Caribbean writers in reproducing a colonially influenced literature in the late 19th and early 20th century.
