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    1. "We are the planet": incipient solidarities in Russell Banks's Continental Drift

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Entin,Joseph (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 2012
    Published:
    Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    WorkingUSA
    Journal Title Details:
    15(1) : 51-66
    Notes:
    Explores the way writers address the formation and fate of the contemporary American working class in an age of neoliberal globalization. Specifically, the essay examines Russell Banks's 1985 novel Continental Drift, which interweaves the stories of two characters who pull up stakes and head to Florida in search of a better life: an oil furnace repair man from New Hampshire and a young, single mother from Haiti.

    6. <Dear Future, by Fred D'Aguiar>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hathaway,Heather (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1998
    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:
    32(3) : 506-508
    Notes:
    Hathaway discusses how this novel records the human toll of Guyanese politics as it chronicles the activities of one extended family suffering under the reign of a corrupt government

    7. Correcting "a Touch of the Brush": Afro-Caribbean Racial Identity and Shame in Francisco Arrivi's Los vejigantes and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's Chombo

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Edison,Thomas Wayne (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall 2004
    Published:
    United States: Venderbilt University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Afro-Hispanic Review
    Journal Title Details:
    23(2) : 45-53
    Notes:
    Within sectors of North America's African-American community, the colloquial expression "being touched by the brush" describes a multi-ethnic individual that possesses subtle Negroid physical features which are only detectable by close inspection by a "trained eye." Here, Edison discusses the historical factors in Puerto Rico and Panama that make up the foundation upon which Francisco Arrivi's "Los Vejigantes" and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's "Chombo" were constructed.;

    8. From 'Griffonne'

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hopkinson,Nalo (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) : 170-181
    Notes:
    An excerpt from Hopkinson's novel 'Griffonne' is presented