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Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Charles H. Rowell (Interviewer) and Astrid Roemer (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
21(3) : 508-510
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Sommer,Roy (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2011
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literary Studies
Journal Title Details:
66(3) : 238-248
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1993
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
16(1) : 285-287
Notes:
Annotated bibliography of Peepal Tree Books publications.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
December-January, 2001-2002
Published:
New York: Black Diaspora Communications
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Black Diaspora
Journal Title Details:
23(1) : 23-24
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Adams,Anne V. (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) : 837-842
Notes:
This anthology celebrates these authors as Caribbean authors, who through their translated writing enable us to become "third listeners," eavesdropping on a Caribbean conversation." (Hilda van Neck-Yoder)
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Alvarez,Julia (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2000
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
23(3) : 821-823
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Balutansky,Kathleen M. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1990
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
13(3) : 539-550
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Barthold,Bonnie J. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 2000
Published:
Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
African American Review
Journal Title Details:
34(4) : 718-720
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Bradshaw,Roxann (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring, 2002
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
25(2) : 381
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Burns,Heather (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1993
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
16(3) : 729
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Casey,Ethan (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 1994
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
17(4) : 1264-1266
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Chinosole (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1995
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 593-601
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Clark,VeVe A. (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) : 784-815
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Coates,Carrol F. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1992
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
15(3) : 863-873
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Coates,Carrol F. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 1999
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
22(4) : 910-921
Notes:
A March, 1998, interview with Caribbean writer Dany Laferrire on his writing style and career
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Coates,Carrol F. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 1999
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
22(4) : 922-923
Notes:
The author introduces the reader to the work and importance of Haitian writer Dany Laferrire, whose acclaimed work 'Comment faire l'amour avec un Ngre sans se fatiguer' put him on an international stage
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Coates,Carrol F. (Author) and Essar,Dennis F. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 1999
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
22(4) : 926-929
Notes:
The articles, films, reviews, and works of fiction and non-fiction of Haitian writer Dany Laferrire are compiled in this bibliography
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Cortez,Jayne (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
July/August, 1985
Published:
Oakland, CA: Black World Foundation
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Black Scholar
Journal Title Details:
16(4) : 61
Notes:
Cortez' article is part of a Special issue on black literature.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Cudjoe,Selwyn R. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring, 1989
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
12(2) : 396-411
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Dance,Daryl Cumber (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
African American Review
Journal Title Details:
36(2) : 333-337
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Deck,Alice A. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring, 1999
Published:
Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
African American Review
Journal Title Details:
33(1) : 159-161
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Glave,Dianne D. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 2003
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
26(1) : 146-159
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Hinds,David Samuel (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2002
Published:
Oakland, CA: Black World Foundation
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Black Scholar
Journal Title Details:
32(2) : 47-48
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Hinson,D. Scot (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
December, 1998
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography
Journal Title Details:
70(4) : 916-917
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Jackson,Richard L. (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) : 815-826
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Meehan,Kevin (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 2000
Published:
Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
African American Review
Journal Title Details:
34(3) : 548-550
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Mortimer,Mildred (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1993
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
16(1) : 108-115
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Mvuyekure,Pierre-Damien (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 1997
Published:
Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
African American Review
Journal Title Details:
31(3) : 520-523
Notes:
The reviewer describes this book as a groundbreaking work
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Narain,Denise de Cairnes (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter/Spring, 1993
Published:
Oakland, CA: Black World Foundation
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Black Scholar
Journal Title Details:
23(1) : 36-38
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Niemoller,Joost (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1998
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
21(3) : 507+
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
N'Zengou-Tayo,Marie-Jose (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
24(1) : 366-367
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Paquet,Sandra Pouchet (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 1995
Published:
Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
African American Review
Journal Title Details:
29(3) : 517-519
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Paravisini-Gebert,Lizabeth (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2000
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
23(3) : 983-986
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Roemer,Astrid H. (Author) and Boeke, Wanda
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring 1995
Published:
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
18(2) : 242-247
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Rowell,Charles H. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1989
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
12(3) : 490-500
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Sankar,Celia (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
September-October, 1996
Published:
Washington, DC: Organization of American States
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
The Americas
Journal Title Details:
48(5) : 22+
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Shelton,Marie-Denise (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1992
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
15(3) : 770-777
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Thorpe,Marjorie (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1990
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
13(3) : 526-531
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Watson-Aifah,Jen (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 2003
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
26(1) : 160-169
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Whitlock,Gillian (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 2003
Published:
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Biography
Journal Title Details:
26(3) : 440-442
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Wilson,Elizabeth Betty (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1993
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
16(1) : 94-107
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Zimra,Clarisse (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1993
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
16(1) : 77-93
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
December, 1981
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Caribbean Quarterly
Journal Title Details:
27(4) : 1-43
Notes:
Special Issue devoted to literature in French-speaking Caribbean since 1945, French Antilles and Haiti.
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
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Brown,Lloyd B. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
December, 1977
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Caribbean Quarterly
Journal Title Details:
23(2-3) : 54-65
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Bryan,Anthony T. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Caribbean Quarterly
Journal Title Details:
48(4) : 12-26
Notes:
This work describes cleavages of race, class and caste in the colonial Jamaican company. It tackles the question of the relation between race and culture.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Campbell,Elaine (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
March-June, 1979
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Caribbean Quarterly
Journal Title Details:
25(1-2) : 80-84
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Cheuse,Alan (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
December, 1975
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Caribbean Quarterly
Journal Title Details:
21(4) : 13-29
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Clark,VeVe A. (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) : 741-847
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Cooke,John (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
December, 1979
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Caribbean Quarterly
Journal Title Details:
25(4) : 31-47
Notes:
Part of the vision depicted in the novels Middle Passage and Mimic Men is that the image local history is the scenery and landscape. Expresses idea that colonization creates nothing. It is obvious in a place, thrives there then disappears.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Ferguson,Moira (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
September-December, 1995
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Caribbean Quarterly
Journal Title Details:
41(3-4) : 133-135
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Greene,Sue N. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Winter, 1993
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
16(1) : 65-71
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Greene,Sue N. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1990
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
13(3) : 532-538
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Morris,Mervyn (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
Kingston, Jamaica: West Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Carib
Journal Title Details:
1 : 18-25
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Scott,Dennis (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
December, 1992
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Caribbean Quarterly
Journal Title Details:
38(4) : 136-141
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Feracho,Lesley (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Mar 2010
Published:
Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
Journal Title Details:
5(1) : 65-74
Notes:
For women writers of the Caribbean as well as for larger marginalized communities, the relationship between oral traditions and written texts is a part of the defining thread of Caribbean historiography. This article draws on Waugh and Hutcheon to examine the use of such texts by women writers of the Hispanophone Caribbean in order to highlight narrative strategies of historically marginalized groups to contest hegemonic constructions of the nation.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Robinson,Tracy L. (Author), Smith,Faith (Author), Rowley,Michelle Vanda (Author), and Alexander,M. Jacqui (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
October, 2007
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Journal Title Details:
11(3) : 118-166
Notes:
Discussion of Alexander's book Pedagogies of Crossings. Includes articles by Tracy L. Robinson, Faith Smith, Michelle Rowley and M. Jacqui Alexander
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Rosenberg,Leah (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Jul 2010
Published:
Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Feminist Review
Journal Title Details:
95(1) : 45-63
Notes:
Analyzes the prominent role played by first wave feminism and by women writers between 1898-1903 as the Jamaica Times articulated a broad-based, middle class nationalism and launched a campaign to establish a Jamaican national literature. This archival material is significant because it suggests a significant modification of anglophone Caribbean feminist, literary and nationalist historiography: first wave feminism was not introduced to Jamaica exclusively through black nationalist organizations in the late 19th and early 20th century, but emerged in a broader phenomenon of respectable, middle class nationalism encompassing Jamaican nationalism and Pan Africanism.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Simpson,Hyacinth (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Nov 2004
Published:
Jamaica: University of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Journal of West Indian Literature
Journal Title Details:
12(1/2) : 1 microfiche
Notes:
Simpson discusses the rise in West Indian literature, especially addressing the increase in critical interest from the rest of the world for the abundance of West Indian short story collections that have appeared within the last two decades. The decades of the 1940s and 1950s are examined as the Golden Age of West Indian short stories, and compared to the single author collections that are now supported through popular sales.;
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Smithers,Gregory D. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Journal of American Studies
Journal Title Details:
45(3) : 483-502
Notes:
Compares memoirs by Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips. The Caribbean-born Afro-Britain Caryl Phillips published The Atlantic Sound (2000), an account of African diasporic identity that moved between understanding, compassion, and a harsh belief that Africa cannot take on the role of a psychologist's couch, that "Africa cannot cure." These three memoirs offer insight into the complex and highly contested nature of identity throughout the African diaspora, and present very personalized reflections on the geography, politics, and history of Africa as a source of identity and diasporic belonging.
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.
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.;
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Summer, 1992
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
15(3) : 667-670
Notes:
Part 2 of Special journal issue: Haitian Literature and Culture., Félix Morisseau-Leroy, was a Haitian writer who wrote in Haitian Creole for poetry and plays.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Forsdick, Charles (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 2013
Published:
Baton Rouge: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
36(4) : 949-967
Notes:
Examines the representation of Haiti in the works of Martinican author Édouard Glissant. The relationship between Haiti and Martinique based on Glissant's essay "Le Discours antillais" is tackled. Glissant's focus on the revolution and independence of Haiti and his conception of the island's role in the reorientation of the Caribbean are discussed. Other works by Glissant include poetic collection "Les Indes" and the play "Monsieur Toussaint."
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Gordon,Donald K. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Fall, 2005
Published:
Columbia, MO: Afro-Romance Institute of University of Missouri at Columbia
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Palara
Journal Title Details:
9
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Turtis,Richard Lee (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Washington, D.C.: Board of Editors of the Hispanic American Review
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Hispanic American Historical Review
Journal Title Details:
82 : 1 microfiche
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Adisa,Opal Palmer (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Terre Haute, Indiana: Dept of English, Indiana State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
African American Review
Journal Title Details:
28 (2): 273-281
Notes:
An interview by Michelle Cliff.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring, 2011
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
Journal Title Details:
32(2) : 1-5
Notes:
Discusses topics including book reviews about women, books about Caribbean women writers, and a review of the independent film "Pink Saris."
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Chrisman,Robert (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Michigan: University of Michigan official publication
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Michigan Quarterly Review
Journal Title Details:
33(4): 807-20
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Balutansky,Kathleen M. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Latin American Research Review
Journal Title Details:
32(1) : 212-225
Notes:
Balutansky reviews C. L. R. James, the Artist as Revolutionary by Paul Buhle, C. L. R. James's Caribbean edited by Paget Henry and Paul Buhle, The C. L. R. James Reader edited by Anna Grimshaw, Special Delivery: The Letters of C. L. R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948 edited by Anna Grimshaw and C. L. R. James: His Intellectual Legacies edited by Selwyn R. Cudjoe and William E. Cain.;
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Birbalsingh,Frank M. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Nov 2004
Published:
Jamaica: University of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Journal of West Indian Literature
Journal Title Details:
12(1/2) : 118-135
Notes:
Birbalsingh discusses Indo-Caribbean culture, and the origins and influences of Indo-Caribbean short stories, beginning with the marriage of Indian and African oral traditions. Several authors from throughout Indo-CAribbean literature are profiled, including A. R. F. Webber, V. S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon.;
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Edison,Thomas Wayne (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Spring 1999
Published:
Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Afro - Hispanic Review
Journal Title Details:
18(1) : 29-33
Notes:
Interviews Afro-Costa Rican writer Quince Duncan. Discusses the lack of critics who are familiar with Black literature in Costa Rica; asks Duncan to compare North American and Latin American criticism of his work, asks Duncan about his latest projects and the direction of his work; and compares Duncan's work with that of Alejo Carpentier and Manuel Zapata Olivella. Also touches upon language usage, the theme of literature of combat, and Duncan's future plans.;
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Johnson,Erica L. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2014-01
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
Journal Title Details:
12(1) : 149-171
Notes:
Dionne Brand's memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, touches on the author's childhood in Trinidad and adulthood in Canada but is equally concerned with understanding and intervening in the larger histories among which Brand situates her identity. Her sources are rich and varied, and they can be broken down into three general types: the historical archives written during the 'age of exploration' and the slave trade; the contemporary archives of newspapers and journals; and the creative archive of postcolonial writers, or the neo-archive.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Ngate,Jonathan (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
Baton Rouge, LA: Callaloo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Callaloo
Journal Title Details:
9 : 553-563
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Stafe,Suzanne (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2013-06
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Feminist Review
Journal Title Details:
104 : 61-79
Notes:
Proposes a reading of Donna Hemans' novel River Woman in relation to other contemporary Caribbean women writers and to the early fiction of Toni Morrison. Argues that the complex affects that her representation of 'child-shifting' produces can be articulated in relation to literary texts that re-imagine historical and contemporary practices leaving a child in order to save her and in the context of the plantation.
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Valovirta,Elina (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2013-06
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Feminist Review
Journal Title Details:
104 : 100-118
Notes:
Caribbean women writers such as Erna Brodber and Opal Palmer Adisa often include men in women's liberatory quests as participants. The close connection between sexuality and emotions in this body of writing can be read through a new model of affective feminist reader theory. Women's sexual healing processes in the novels discussed in this article are not solely gynocentric in the Caribbean context: men are often active participants in these processes, and thus also in gender reconfigurations.