Arciniegas, Germán (Author) and Onís,Harriet de (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1946., 486 p, History of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the 19th century. Archiniegas' narrative provides readers with both a panorama of Caribbean history and colorful details about important historical figures and events.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Reprint of Mrs. Carmichael, Domestic manners and social condition of the white, coloured, and Negro population of the West Indies (London, Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1833)., 2 vols
Adler,Joyce Sparer (Author), Adler,Irving (Author), and Jagan,Janet (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
106 p, Contents: Wilson Harris : the ideal of unity -- The art of Wilson Harris -- Tumatumari and the imagination of Wilson Harris -- Wilson Harris and twentieth-century man -- Melville and Harris : poetic imaginations related in their response to the modern world -- Wilson Harris's The womb of space : the cross-cultural imagination -- The evolution of female figures and imagery in Wilson Harris's novels -- Wilson Harris's cross-cultural dialogue with Melville -- Wilson Harris : an introduction
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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138 p, Description and analysis of the two most important religions of African descent in Cuban spiritual life: the first of Yoruban origin; the second of Congo-Bantu origin
Batur-Vanderlippe,Pinar (Author) and Feagin,Joe R. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
Stamford, CT: JAI Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
394 p, Includes Enid Logan's "El apóstol y el comandante en jefe: dialectics of racial discourse and racial practice in cuba, 1890-1999" and Mimi Sheller's "Resistance and struggle: The 'Haytian fear': racial projects and competing reactions to the first Black republic"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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325 p, "This is the first comprehensive study of a powerful and distinctive body of poetry that has emerged in the West Indies over the last fifteen years." (Publisher)
Christie,Pauline (Author) and Alleyne,Mervyn C. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Barbados: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
224p, Focuses on Caribbean language and pays attention to issues of phonology, syntax, discourse, Creole genesis, and language problems in education. (back cover)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Desirada was awarded the prestigious Prix Carbet de la Caraibe in 1998 given for the best book by a Caribbean author, 280 p, Desirada is the story of Marie-Noelle and her quest to understand the mother who abandoned her, and discover the identity of her father, despite the opposing stories from her mother and her grandmother. It is also the story of generations of island women and the pursuit of a meaningful life despite a tainted personal history.
Connolly,Michael B. (Author) and McDermott,John (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
New York: Praeger
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
355 p, "One of the few scholarly works to seriously examine the economic problems of the region. This volume contains a unique mix of theory, practice, and case studies of the economic practitioners from the Caribbean Basin." (Amazon.com)
DeLoughrey,Elizabeth M. (Author), Gosson,Renee K. (Author), and Handley,George B. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
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