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    1. Rhys's Pieces: Unhomeliness as Arbiter of Caribbean Creolization

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Murdoch,Adlai H. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2003
    Published:
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    26(1) : 252-272
    Notes:
    "Any attempt to trace the many resonances that historically have been attached to the creole figure in Caribbean literature and culture will be inflected by the long and pervading presence of colonialism in the region and its attendant corollary of hierarchical social separation and difference based on perceptions of race. Indeed, the ambivalent desire and subjective misrecognition that lay at the heart of historical writing about colonialism and racism have tended to frame the issues of monstrosity and exclusion that produced the creole as part and parcel of wider colonial discourses. Thus, the shifting and increasingly unstable inscription of the creole figure echoes, in a certain sense, certain critical ambiguities of politics and temporality that color the colonial encounter and its aftermath. Specifically, in the contemporary English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the multiplicity, displacement, and creative instability that undergird creole-driven theories of postcolonial performance have supplanted this category's suspect beginnings as colonialism's model for the fearfully unnameable and unplaceable hybrid monstrosity, and now increasingly shape the substance of much of the artistic and creative work emerging from the region." --The Author

    2. West Indian Hindus: Celebrate Phagwa in Colorful Fashion

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Campbell,C. H. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    April-May, 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(3) : 44
    Notes:
    The month of March sees thousands of West Indians in the U.S. and abroad in colorful celebration of their Phagwa holiday- the origin of which is almost mythical and its exact time of origination is not known

    6. Sketching a Literature from the French Antilles: From Negritude to Creolite

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Conde,Maryse (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1996
    Published:
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire
    Journal Title Details:
    1(1) : 138-163
    Notes:
    A folktale told by the islanders of Guadeloupe and Martinique is relayed and discussed as having all the makings of a myth of origin

    10. Roy Pascal Brings Rhythms of the Caribbean to Europe

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Fleck,Bryan (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    February-March, 2003
    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(6) : 22
    Notes:
    In 1989, accomplished musician Roy Pascal of Trinidad moved to Denmark after meeting his Danish wife in Grenada

    11. Creolite and the New Cultural Politics of Difference in Popular Music of the French West Indies

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Guibault,Jocelyne (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1994
    Published:
    Nashville, TN: Fisk University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Music Research Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    14(2) : 161-178
    Notes:
    Examines the genesis of the French Antillean concept of Creolite that emerged in the 1980s and shows "how, through zouk, the popular music that emerged from Guadeloupe and Martinique in the early 1980s, Creolite is being defined, (re)presented, and negotiated." (author)

    13. <Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture, and Politics, by Patrick Taylor>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hintzen,Percy C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    October, 1991
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    48(2) : 312-313

    14. Creating Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston and Lydia Cabrera

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hoffman-Jeep,Lynda (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2005
    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:
    39(3) : 337-353
    Notes:
    "While plotting out the journeys that paved the way for their creative and innovative work in Afro-Cuban and African American ethnography, this study will address their bifocal vision as insider-outsiders within the minority cultures they represent in folktales and within the 'foreign' cultures to which they traveled. Cabrera's and Hurston's roles as 'native ethnographers' will also be considered. In creating alternatives to traditional ethnographies, such as Franz Boas's Bella Bella Tales (1932), their collections can be understood as early examples of experimental and feminist ethnography." (author)

    16. Composing A Haitian Cultural Identity: Haitian Elites, African Ancestry, and Musical Discourse

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Largey,Michael (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1994
    Published:
    Nashville, TN: Fisk University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Music Research Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    14(2) : 99-118
    Notes:
    "Traces the history of Haitian classical or "learned" music from the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century by examining the state's role as a patron to the arts, the development of the educational system, the call for a national Haitian music in the early twentieth century, and individual composer's biographies." (author)

    17. Hegelian Tales in the Caribbean: Production, Expression, and History in the Articulation of the Atlantic Subject

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Legras,Horacio (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Tucson, AZ: Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    5 : 133-148
    Notes:
    "In this essay I discuss the thwarted cultural translation of modernity across the Atlantic and how this process affected the cultural self-understanding of the Caribbean. I will frame my argument by referring to the Hegelian theme of the Subject insofar as this particular concept condenses and articulates the ideology of modernity as a Eurocentric drive for world domination." (author)

    18. Researching Steelband and Calypso Music in the British Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Liverpool,Hollis Urban (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1994
    Published:
    Nashville, TN: Fisk University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Music Research Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    14(2) : 179-201
    Notes:
    "In London and in the North American cities where migrants from the Caribbean have instituted Carnival, the majority of people are ignorant about the nature of calypso: it is stereotyped in their minds as music for tourists. Accordingly, I would like to give a brief description of the true nature of calypso and of the steelband as an orchestra, so as to set the records straight and undo some the Eurocentric damage to Caribbean art forms." (author)

    20. Palenge Awe/Palenque Hoy/Palenque Today: The Spanish Caribbean, the African Creole Perspective and the Role of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Morton,Thomas B. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall-Winter, 2000
    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:
    30(3-4) : 51-53
    Notes:
    This is a sociolinguistic study of San Basilio, located on Colombia's northern or Caribbean coast and the last surviving community where a Spanish-based Creole language still exists in the whole of the Americas

    22. Social Evolution of the Afro-Cuban Drum

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nodal,Roberto (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1983
    Published:
    Nashville, TN: Fisk University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Perspective in Music
    Journal Title Details:
    11(2) : 157-177
    Notes:
    "The social ascendancy of the drum reflects equally the gradual upward mobility of Cuba's black people. It is impossible to day to imagine any kind of modern Cuban music that does not include the restrained, or wild, rolling of the drum, making the rhythm of romantic songs or revealing the exuberance of the son, rumba, and other dance rhythms. I shall attempt here to briefly sketch of the Afro-Cuban drum from colonial times to present...." (author)

    24. <Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora, by Margarite Fernández Olmos; Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Payne-Jackson,Arvilla (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    January, 2002
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    58(3) : 484
    Notes:
    "The Spanish expression--la cultura cura (culture heals)--is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people"

    27. <Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Carribean edited by Darien J. Davis> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Smothers,Bonnie (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    February 15, 1995
    Published:
    Chicago: American Library Association
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Booklist
    Journal Title Details:
    91(12) : 1055
    Notes:
    Review also covers Whither Thou Goest -- Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country by Carl A. Brasseaux and others; and 'Who Set You Flowin'?' by Farah Jasmine Griffin

    29. Caribbean Poetry in Papiamentu

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Van Putte-De Windt,Igma (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) : 654-659

    30. Caribbean Fashion Week

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Waye,Runn (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    February-March, 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(2) : 76-80+

    31. Identity, and Cultural Bias in Fieldwork

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Whitehead,Tony L. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    September-October, 1980
    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:
    11(7) : 40-44, 83
    Notes:
    A case study of anthropological field work in Jamaica to illustrate difficulties in carrying out this type of research

    33. Augusta Zelia Fraser in Jamaica: The Case for Racial Separation

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    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.

    35. A Vision of the Land: V.S. Naipaul's Later Novels

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    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.

    36. Revolutionary Struggle and the Novel

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cudjoe,Selwyn R. (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) : 1-30
    Notes:
    The "novel, as a more conscious artifact, is shaped in a more deliberate manner than poetry and revolutionary struggle in the novel is utilized with a well-defined intention. We will demonstrate these contentions by analysing the following novels: Bertene Juminer's Bozambo's Revenge, V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas, and Alejo Carpentier's Explosion in a Cathedral." (author)

    41. We Slaves of Suriname

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Kom,Anton de (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) : 667-672

    49. Awakening the Caribbean African: The socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Tillis,Antonio D. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall 2003
    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:
    22(2) : 29
    Notes:
    Tillis explores the socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez in the context of the negritude aesthetic in the Spanish-speaking world. The selected poems of Jiménez attest to the continuation of negritude ideology of Afrocentric thematic poetry in the Carribean and showed that the poet's social criticism is linked to an ideology of white supremacy resulting from colonialism and slavery.;

    50. Ancestors and Migrants: On Tradition and Reflection in Surinamese Singing, Storytelling and Writing

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Van Kempen,Michiel (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Nov 2004
    Published:
    Barbados: 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) : 31-52
    Notes:
    Van Kempen discusses the songs and traditions of the Saramaccan peoples of the Upper Suriname. The music and lyrics of the Saramaccans depicts the troubles the ethnic groups have experienced in the 1990s from transmigration ordered by the government, typically lamenting or singing the praises of their old African villages, and cursing Western engineers for the uprooting of their cultures.;