African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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237 p., A close reading of three works by female authors. Presents a trajectory, covering different epochs from post emancipation, independence, and the contemporary, of their portrayal of subalterns, the specific strategies they use to reveal their protagonists' resistance, growth and self-affirmation.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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92 p, Investigates the power of stories told within Caribbean dancehall music and culture that present “good reasons” that are adopted by members of that culture. Shows that dancehall stories reveal powerful ideological frames that “naturalize” ways of being within Caribbean dancehall culture. Various relationships between “good reasons” presented in lyrical stories and the adoption of these “good reasons” by participants in their own stories emerged as well.
