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    54. Suzanne Dracius's Creole Bovarysm or Emma B.'s Triumphant Feminist Marronnage in 'De sueur, desucre et sang'

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Vété-Congolo,Hanétha (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2007
    Published:
    Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Wadabagei
    Journal Title Details:
    10(1) : 73-97
    Notes:
    "Transgression and taboo which have a symbolic meaning in Caribbean societies are used in one of her short stories, “De sueur, de sucre et de sang” to articulate a social and feminist discourse. She uses the highly symbolic figure of the Nègre marron and ideology of marronnage to create a marronnage en abîme that has an aesthetic and ideological significance.

    57. The emergence of an Afro-Cuban Aesthetic

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Williams,Lorna V. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Spring 2002
    Published:
    United States: Vanderbilt University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Afro - Hispanic Review
    Journal Title Details:
    21(1/2) : 35-43
    Notes:
    Discusses the emergence of an Afro-Cuban aesthetic. Notes the major contributions of Cuban writers Félix Tanco, Antonio Zambrana, Nicolás Guillén, Miguel Barnet, and others to the literary movement. Remarks that these authors give us a view of Latin American history from "below the deck of a slave ship" - a view that is very different from the traditional one.;

    60. We are All Activists: An Interview With Merle Hodge

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Balutansky,Kathleen M. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1989
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Callaloo
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    12(4) : 651-662
    Notes:
    Hodge candidly talks about her childhood, studies, life, etc. She also states that she writes about her cultural situation in the colonial era, but not as feminists take it. She also works for social advancement of women