DeLoughrey,Elizabeth M. (Author), Gosson,Renee K. (Author), and Handley,George B. (Author)
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Book, Whole
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2005
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Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press
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303 p, Contents: Sugar and the environment in Cuba / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Isla incognita / Derek Walcott -- Shaping the environment : sugar plantation, or life after identured labor / Cyril Dabydeen -- Coffee and colonialism in Julia Alvarez's A cafecito story / Trenton Hickman -- Subjection and resistance in the transformation of Guyana's mytho-colonial landscape / Shona N. Jackson -- A long bilingual conversation concerning paradise lost : landscapes in Haitian art / LeGrace Benson -- "Caribbean genesis" : language, gardens, worlds (Jamaica Kincaid, Derek Walcott, Édouard Glissant) / Jana Evans Braziel -- "The argument of the outboard motor" : an interview with Derek Walcott / George B. Handley -- Cultural and environmental assimilation in Martinique : an interview with Raphaël Confiant / Renée K. Gosson -- Moving the Caribbean landscape : Cereus blooms at night as a re-imagination of the Caribbean environment / Isabel Hoving -- "Rosebud is my mama, stanfaste is my papa" : hybrid landscapes and sexualities in Surinamese oral literature / Natasha Tinsley -- "He of the trees" : nature, environment, and Creole religiosities in Caribbean literature / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- "Man fitting the landscape" : nature, culture, and colonialism / Helen Tiffin -- Flashbacks of an orchid : rhizomatic narration in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Heidi Bojsen -- Landscapes, narratives, and tropical nature : Creole modernity in Suriname / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger -- The uses of landscape : ecocriticism and Martinican cultural theory / Eric Prieto -- From living nature to borderless culture in Wilson Harris's work / Hena Maes-Jelinek -- Epilogue : Theatre of the arts / Wilson Harris
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228 p, Contents: Canonized hybridities, resistant hybridities: Chutney Soca, carnival, and the politics of nationalism / Shalini Puri -- Soca and social formations: avoiding the romance of culture in Trinidad / Stefano Harney -- Trinidad romance: the invention of Jamaican carnival / Belinda J. Edmondson -- All that is black melts into air: negritud and nation in Puerto Rico / Catherine Den Tandt -- Positive vibration? Capitalist textual hegemony and Bob Marley / Mike Alleyne --"Titid ad pèp la se marasa": Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the new national romance in Haiti / Kevin Meehan -- Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: the politics of identity in postcolonial Martinique / Richard Price and Sally Price -- Beautiful Indians, troublesome negroes, and nice white men: Caribbean romances and the invention of Trinidad / Faith Smith -- Homing instincts: immigrant nostalgia and gender politics in Brown girl, brownstones / Supriya Nair -- Derek Walcott: liminal spaces/substantive histories / Tejumola Olaniyan
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358 p, Contents: From A true and exact history of the island of Barbados (1657) /; Richard Ligon --; From Jamaica viewed (1661) /; Edmund Hickeringill --; From Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies (1684) /; Thomas Tryon --; Trip to Jamaica (1698) /; Edward Ward --; Speech made by a Black of Guardaloupe (1709) /; Anonymous --; Speech of Moses Bon Saam (1735) /; Anonymous --; From The speech of Mr. John Talbot Campo-bell (1736) /; Robert Robertson --; Story of Inkle and Yarico and An epistle from Yarico to Inkle, after he had left her in slavery (1738) /; Frances Seymour --; Poems from Caribbeana (1741) /; The "Ingenious Lady" of Barbados --; Sugar cane: a poem, in four books (1764) /; James Grainger --; From A general description of the West-Indian islands (1767) /; John Singleton --; "Carmen, or, an Ode," in Edward Long's A history of Jamaica (1774) /; Francis Williams --; From Jamaica, a poem, in three parts (1777) /; Anonymous.
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353 p, Contents: The unity of Caribbean literature -- Toward a Caribbean poetics -- Kamau Brathwaite and the Caribbean word -- Stages of the sacred in René Depestre -- Pedro Mir and the historical imagination -- Conclusion: the Caribbean in a decentralized literary order.
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131 p, Contents: Making West Indian literature -- Kamau Brathwaite -- Locating self : Dennis Scott interviewed -- Dennis Scott : a remembrance -- Interrogating irony : Mervyn Morris interviewed -- The all Jamaica library -- Jane's career and Susan Proudleigh -- Voices under the window -- Validating lives : Trevor Rhone interviewed -- Miss Lou, some heirs and successors -- In search of justice : Linton Kwesi Johnson interviewed -- Building awareness : Mikey Smith interviewed -- Orator Baugh -- Sounds and sense : West Indian poetry -- It was the singing -- Sir Vidia and the prize.
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231 p, Contents: Postcolonial modernism/modernist postcolonialism --; "Not borrowers, but bearers of a tradition" --; Listening to Eliot : poetic revolution and common speech --; Public poets
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260 p, Contents: "Under the hog plum tree": literary claims for citizenship in nineteenth-century Trinidad -- The accidental modernist : Thomas MacDermot and Jamaican literature -- Herbert's career : H.G. de Lisser and the business of national literature -- The new primitivism : gender and nation in McKay's internationalism -- The realpolitik of yard fiction : Trinidad's Beacon group -- The pitfalls of feminist nationalism and the career of Una Marson -- "Fishy waters" : Jean Rhys and West Indian writing before 1940.
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251 p, Taylor uses the works of Frantz Fanon to examine the expressive culture of the Afro-Caribbean. Focuses on the narrative of the colonized people and makes a distinction between mythic narrative and the narrative of liberation. (JSTOR)
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185 p, Contents: Pt. 1. Myth as a historical mode : Lo real maravilloso americano -- Lo real maravilloso in Caribbean fiction -- The folk imagination and history : El reino de este mundo, The secret ladder, and Le quatrième siècle -- Pt. 2. The problematic quest for origins -- The myth of El Dorado : Los pasos perdidos and Palace of the peacock -- Pt. 3. Myth and history : the dialectics of culture -- History as mythic discourse : El siglo de las luces, Tumatumari, and La case du commandeur -- The poetics of identity and difference : Black Marsden and Concierto barroco
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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.
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329 p, Contents: Introduction -- transamerican renaissance -- Scattered traditions : the transamerican genealogies of Jicoténcal -- A francophone view of comparative American literature : Revue des colonies and the translations of abolition -- Cuban stories -- Hawthorne's Mexican genealogies -- Transamerican theatre : Pierre Faubert and L'Oncle Tom.
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126 p, Contents: The book is organized as a series of essays on related topics all applied to Caribbean women's fiction: white women writers; madness; postcolonial theory, female subjectivity, Bakhtin's Carnival image; ideology (Elaine Savory)
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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)
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v, 174 leaves ; 29 cm., This novel is a contemporary novel that deals with the history of france; "UMI:9959638."/ Includes bibliographical references ( 167-174)./ Reproduction: Photocopy./ Ann Arbor, Mich. :/ UMI,/ 2000./ v, 174 ; 21 cm.
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253 p, This text sets out to recapture the Creole speech of early Jamaican society by analyzing rare 18th-century documents in their socio-historical contexts.
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Searchable site on postcolonial literature and the history, politics, and religion of those geographic areas. Covers Africa, Australia, India, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, and Ireland. The sites have been cross referenced under Authors, History, Religion, Postcolonial Theory, Gender Matters, and Diasporas.
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192 p, Book Description Using a multifaceted approach, this study explores questions of identity in novels by Dany Bbel-Gisler, Maryse Cond, and Emile Ollivier. As signs, narrators and characters are connected to each other dialogically and produce multilayered narratives that problematize the concept of a cohesive and static collective identity. In revealing identity to be a constantly fluctuating semiotic process, the study shows that Caribbean Francophone narrative is creating a new literary space where the dialogic underpinnings of the self are called upon to express the difficulties, the heterogeneity, and the opacity of meaning associated with any definition of a cultural or national identity. (Amazon);
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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.;
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290 p, Introduction. Conceptualizing creoleness : French Caribbean "postcolonial" discourse. -- La Lézarde : Alienation and the poetics of Antillanité. -- En attendant le bonheur : Creole conjunctions and cultural survival. -- LIsole Soleil/Soufrières : textual creolization and cultural identity. -- LAutre qui danse : the modalities and multiplicities of Métissage. -- Solibo magnifique : carnival, opposition, and the narration of the Caribbean maroon. -- Conclusion. Creolizing the colonial encounter.
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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.
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317 p, Contains: Introduction : paradise and imperialism -- Caribbean wasteland -- Paradise is plantation? -- Naipaul's "Garden of hell" -- Walcott's postcolonial Adam -- World out of time -- Conclusion : the true history of paradise.
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245 p, Contents: The politics of postcolonial nationalist literature / The nation as problem and possibility / Caribbean space: Lamming, Naipaul, and federation / The novel after the nation: Nigeria after Biafra / The persistence of the nation: literature and criticism in Canada / National culture and globalization
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193 p., Studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French colonies in 1946.
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208 p., Examines the representation of violence in the work of contemporary writers and artists of the Hispanic Caribbean and its diaspora in the United States.
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294 p, From New World to Pan-Atlantic: opening the history of America -- Francisco de Miranda, Toussaint Louverture, and the Pan-Atlantic sphere of liberation -- Pan-Atlantic exports and imports: translation, freedom, and the circulation of cultural capital -- Positioning South America from HMS Beagle: the navigator, the discoverer, and the ocean of free trade -- Pan-Atlantic migrations: capital, culture, revolution.; Time: 1700 - 1899
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762 p., A biography of the novelist Jean Rhys, author of Quartet and Wide Sargasso Sea, who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. Jean Rhys's childhood, her momentous first love affair, her three marriages, the disasters which befell her husbands, her drinking and its consequences: all are shown with unsparing clarity.
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245 p., Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Writing Secrecy provides insight into Pan-Caribbean, transnational and diasporic formations of these Masonic lodges and their influences on political and cultural discourses in the Americas. Includes "Technologies: Caribbean Knowledges, Imperial Critiques 1860-1900s" and "Urgency and Possibility: Afro-Latin® Identities."
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223 p., Investigates the exilic literature of Caribbean-born and Caribbean-descent writers who, from their new location in Northern America, question their cultural roots and search for a creative autonomy.
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209 p., Collects interviews with queer Caribbean writers, activists, and citizens and challenges the dominance of Euro-American theories in understanding global queerness.
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309 p., Drawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban and South Floridian Santería, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness, this book reemplaces deep-southern texts within the counterclockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity. Includes "Down to the Mire : Travels, Shouts & Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans."
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296 p., Examines how changes in political, economic, and social structures have produced different sets of possibilities for writers to imagine their relationship to the institutions of the public sphere. In the process, he provides a new context for rereading such major writers as Mary Seacole, José Martí, Jacques Roumain, Claude McKay, Marie Chauvet, and George Lamming, while also drawing lesser-known figures into the story.
Donnell,Alison (Author) and Bucknor,Michael (Author)
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2011
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New York: Routledge
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674 p, he volume is divided into six sections. It brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field.
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207 p., Fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
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111 p, Examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Negritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Negritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African past allegorized as a mother figure. In contrast these women writers, of the post-colonial era who are to large extent heirs of Negritude, differ sharply from their male counterparts in their representation of Africa. In their novels, the continent is not represented as a propitious mother figure but a disappointing father figure.
Glaser,Marlies (Author) and Pausch,Marion (Author)
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1994
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Amsterdam: Rodopi
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The volume consists of a bilingual introduction of “parallelism of literary and cultural preoccupations” between Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literatures. As well as English-and French-language articles on Caribbean poetry, novels, and theater. Also, includes interviews with six Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean authors and book reviews.;
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 1989., 199 p, "Comparative study on race relations and on social and individual images of blacks in the US and brazil. Examines selected religious, political and literary discourses from and interdisciplinary perspective supported by theories of Michael Foucault and Jacques Derrida on discourse formation and intertextuality, demonstrates the ideological concepts of the colonizers, showing how these were later replaced by scientific theories that supported the ruling class in neglecting, mistreating, and dehumanizing the nonwhite population in the 2 countries." --Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol 58 Humanities, by Lawrence Boudon.
Rio Piedras, R: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico
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204 p, The author’s purpose of the twenty essays is to connect and revive the exchange of ideas, language and forms of thinkers from the 19th Century Puerto Ricans. This will reflect the regions traits through the studies of Literature, Social Sciences, Literary Critisim, History and languages.;
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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.
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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);
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248 p., Draws attention to a neglected body of récits d'enfance, or childhood memoirs, by contemporary bestselling, prize-winning Francophone Caribbean authors Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Daniel Maximin, Raphaël Confiant and Dany Laferrière, while also offering new readings of texts by Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Françoise Ega, Michèle Lacrosil, Maurice Virassamy and Mayotte Capécia.
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192 p., Argues that postcolonial critics must move beyond an identity-based orthodoxy as they examine problems of sovereignty. Harrison describes what she calls "difficult subjects”--subjects that disrupt essentialized notions of identity as equivalent to sovereignty. She argues that these subjects function as a call for postcolonial critics to broaden their critical horizons beyond the usual questions of national identity and exclusion/inclusion.
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296 p., The formal evolution of colonial prose narrative, Ianinni argues, was contingent upon the emergence of natural history writing, which itself emerged necessarily from within the context of Atlantic slavery and the production of tropical commodities. As he reestablishes the history of cultural exchange between the Caribbean and North America, Ianinni recovers the importance of the West Indies in the formation of American literary and intellectual culture as well as its place in assessing the moral implications of colonial slavery.
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259 p, In an extensive collection of essays spanning 50 years of sustained scholarship, The Negritude Moment explores the many varied aspects of Negritude - both as a concept and as a movement. F. Abiola Irele provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and ideological background of themes that have preoccupied French-speaking black writers and intellectuals. His collection also includes a rare essay on the structure of Aime Cesaire's imagery in its poetic transmutation of this experience.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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304 p., Shows how such movements as Pan-Africanism, the New Negro Renaissance, and pan-American modernism have significant Caribbean roots, although the United States has often failed to recognize them, effectively "purloining" those resources without acknowledgment.
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261 p., Examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. Analyzing the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture. Demonstrates how many individuals contest traditional roles by maneuvering within and/or trying to change their society's binary gender systems. These transgressions have come to better represent Caribbean culture than the "official" representations perpetuated by governmental elites and often codified into laws that reinforce patriarchal, heterosexual stereotypes.
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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.
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391 p., A comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies the effects of this population shift on national and cultural identity and traces the postcolonial Caribbean experience through analyses of the concepts of identity and diaspora. Through close readings of selected literary works and film, H. Adlai Murdoch explores the ways in which these immigrants and their descendants represented their metropolitan identities.
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196 p., Argues that cultural and literary expressions of illness, suffering, and subjectivity in the postcolonial context are always in dialogue with seemingly external discourses and practices of health. Thus, through sustained analyses of historical, biomedical and sociocultural currents in the context of eight Francophone novels from 1968 to 2003, the book advances a new theory of critical conditions. These critical conditions represent the conjunction of bodily, psychic, and textual states that defy conventional definitions of health and well-being.
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260 p., Offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean, exploring the relationship between literary form, cultural practice, and the nation-state. Engaging with the historical and political impact of capitalist imperialism, decolonization, class struggle, ethnic conflict, and gender relations, it considers the ways in which Caribbean authors have sought to rethink and re-narrate the traumatic past and often problematic 'postcolonial' present of the region's peoples.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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158 p, Argues that engaging the Caribbean diaspora and the massive waves of migration from the region that have punctuated its history, involves not only understanding communities in host countries and the conflicted identities of second generation subjectivities, but also interpreting how these communities interrelate with and affect communities at home.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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195 p., Examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields. Explores the works of writers such as Shani Mootoo, Jamaica Kincaid and Lawrence Scott.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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235 p., Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies. Includes chapter on "Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative."
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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220 p., This collection uses the metaphor of the global Caribbean to discuss the multiple movements, identities, epistemologies and politics of the Caribbean. Examines the processes of the transnational transport of peoples, languages, and literatures between the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and North America.
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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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226 p., Argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean’s iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using a distinctive methodology she calls "feminist rehearsal" to chart the Caribbean’s multiple and contradictory accounts of historical events, the author highlights the gendered and emergent connections between art, history, and belonging.
Silva,Dorsía Smith (Editor) and Alexander,Simone A. James (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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272 p, "Mothering has been a recurring theme in the work of many women writers and Caribbean women writers are no exception. This volume comprises of a collection of essays, which examine the multiple definitions and images of mothering and motherhood--from childbirth as the initial site to surrogate, communal, and extended parenthood in the stories of generations of women that include grandmothers, godmothers, sisters and aunts. Writing out of their numerous cultural, political, social, spiritual, and economic worlds, these Caribbean mothers bring needed attention to their endurance of social class, language, cultural chauvinism, physical and psychological exile, racial politics, and colonial sovereignty barriers." --Publisher's description.
