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    2. "Decentering" a Discipline: Recent Trends in Latin American Literary Studies

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Dixon,Paul B. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1996
    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:
    31(3) : 203-217
    Notes:
    Presents the essay Decentering a Discipline: Recent Trends in Latin American Literary Studies, based on a number of books. Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature, by David William Foster; Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?, edited by Gustavo Perez Firmat; Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions From Spanish America, by Lucille Kerr; Other books used in the essay.;

    3. "My Body is My Piece of Land": Female Sexuality, Family, and Capital in Caribbean Texts

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Duvivier,Sandra C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 2008
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    31(4) : 1104-1121
    Notes:
    Examines the book Violated by Guitele Jeudy Rahill and the film Dancehall Queen directed by Don Letts. It sites that both works explore the politics of black female sexuality related to upward mobility and economic survival in Caribbean settings. It also examines female sexuality as marketplace and analyzes the use of the black female body for mobility purposes.

    4. 'It Dread Inna Inglan': Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and dub identity

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hitchcock,Peter (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1993
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Postmodern Culture
    Journal Title Details:
    4(1)
    Notes:
    This essay examines the production of cultural voice in the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson,the African/Caribbean/European dub poet. It suggests that the double-displacement of an African-Caribbean Black living in England, diaspora upon diaspora, comes with a double-indemnity-making and history.

    6. 'The Chosen Place, the Timeless People': Race, Colonial Power, and the Absence of Sisterhood

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Paravisini-Gebert,Lizabeth (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) : 41-53
    Notes:
    "[Examines] le développement historique et socio-économique des Caraïbes dans le roman de Paule Marshall: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (publié en 1963), à travers la relation de deux femmes, l'une noire, l'autre blanche, dont les destins et l'héritage sont liés à l'histoire particulière des relations de genre caractéristiques de l'esclavage et de la vie sur les plantations." (Refdoc.fr)

    13. A Small Place Writes Back

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    King,Jane (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Summer, 2002
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Callaloo
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    25(3) : 885-909

    15. 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.

    17. Afro-Cuban literature: Critical Junctures

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    DeCosta-Willis,Miriam (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall 1999
    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:
    18(2) : 47-49
    Notes:
    Reviews Mullen's examination (Greenwood Press, 1998, 236p) of Afro-Cuban literature. Notes that this study is "perceptive" and "important" to the field of Afro-Hispanic literary criticism.;

    18. Afro-Hispanic and Caribbean Literatures in Recent Theory and Criticism: Affirmations and Implications

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Prescott,Laurence E. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1996
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Latin American Research Review
    Journal Title Details:
    31(1) : 148-161
    Notes:
    Reviews books on Afro-Hispanic and Caribbean literature. Includes The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures, by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin; Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Daryl Cumber Dance; Nicolas Guillen: Popular Poet of the Caribbean, by Ian Isidore Smart.;